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... Indians , in which , after passing through many hardships and dangers , he achieved success . When the troubles came with France it was by the soldiers under his command that the first shots were fired in the war which was to determine ...
... Indians , in which , after passing through many hardships and dangers , he achieved success . When the troubles came with France it was by the soldiers under his command that the first shots were fired in the war which was to determine ...
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... Indian - fighters , game - hunters , forest - fellers , and backwoods farmers who , generation after gen- eration ... Indians . sionally some venturesome hunter or trapper The Alle- Occa- penetrated this immense wilderness , and with ...
... Indian - fighters , game - hunters , forest - fellers , and backwoods farmers who , generation after gen- eration ... Indians . sionally some venturesome hunter or trapper The Alle- Occa- penetrated this immense wilderness , and with ...
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... Indian tribe , war - parties and Kentucky was not owned by any was visited only by wandering hunting - parties who came from and ong the savage nations living north of the south Ohio or A roving of the Tennessee . wal - party stumbled ...
... Indian tribe , war - parties and Kentucky was not owned by any was visited only by wandering hunting - parties who came from and ong the savage nations living north of the south Ohio or A roving of the Tennessee . wal - party stumbled ...
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... Indians , they changed their resting - place every night , and after making a fire off a mile or two in the woods to sleep . Surrounded by brute and human foes , they owed their lives to their sleepless vigilance , their keen senses ...
... Indians , they changed their resting - place every night , and after making a fire off a mile or two in the woods to sleep . Surrounded by brute and human foes , they owed their lives to their sleepless vigilance , their keen senses ...
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... Indians , and driven back- of Boone's ever , own sons being slain . In 1775 , he made another attempt ; and this atte was successful . The Indians attacked the n comers ; but by this time the parties of would settlers were own ...
... Indians , and driven back- of Boone's ever , own sons being slain . In 1775 , he made another attempt ; and this atte was successful . The Indians attacked the n comers ; but by this time the parties of would settlers were own ...
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