item: #1 of 15 id: 11151 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: The Lost Trail date: None words: 36587 flesch: 79 summary: The darlint; if she's gone to heaven, then Teddy McFadden don't care how soon somebody else wears out his breeches--that is, on the presumption that St. Peter will say, 'Teddy, me lad, ye can inter an' make yerself at home, to be sure!' And so, Teddy, ye're sayin' it war a white man that took away the missionary's wife. keywords: cora; day; face; fire; good; hand; harvey; head; hunter; indian; irishman; lost; man; missionary; moment; night; richter; rifle; savage; teddy; time; trail; trapper; village; way; white; wife; woods; yees; yer cache: 11151.txt plain text: 11151.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 14784 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Timid Hare: The Little Captive date: None words: 13725 flesch: 94 summary: Then they turned to their play as if she were not worth noticing, and poor little Timid Hare blushed for shame. But to Timid Hare she only said: Take these to the home of our chief and place them in the hands of Sweet Grass. keywords: bent; bull; chief; child; girl; grass; hare; home; stone; thought; timid cache: 14784.txt plain text: 14784.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 18352 author: Curtis, Charles A. (Charles Albert) title: Captured by the Navajos date: None words: 53763 flesch: 80 summary: Approaching her, I asked: Why are you doing that, Miss Brenda? I promised Mr. Frank I would do it until he and Mr. Henry return, was her answer. Yes, sir. Why did you not tell me? Mr. Frank said I must not before we arrived here. keywords: animals; arnold; away; boys; brenda; camp; captain; clary; corporal; day; direction; distance; feet; fire; fort; frank; good; half; head; henry; horses; indians; left; manuel; march; men; miles; navajos; party; place; ponies; right; river; road; sergeant; sir; soldiers; time; trail; valley; vic; water; way cache: 18352.txt plain text: 18352.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 26799 author: Biggs, William title: Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788 date: None words: 10751 flesch: 87 summary: The old chief then appeared to be very sorry for my misfortune, and told me that I was among good Indians, I need not fear, they would not hurt me, and after awhile I should go home to my family; that I should go down the Wabash to Opost, from there down to the Ohio, then down the Ohio, and then up the Mississippi to Kaskaskia. He was a Freemason and appeared very sorry for my misfortune and told me he would do everything in his power to befriend me and told me I was with good Indians, they would not hurt me. keywords: cabin; chief; day; indians; miles; squaw; time; town cache: 26799.txt plain text: 26799.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 26965 author: Frost, John title: Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. date: None words: 37409 flesch: 68 summary: The opening of the gate arrested the attention of several Indians who were straggling through the village, but they permitted Miss Zane to pass without molestation. He had no sooner started, than several Indians followed in his rear and discharged their rifles at him as he galloped across the prairie. keywords: battle; body; captain; colonel; day; distance; enemy; escape; fire; fort; garrison; girty; gun; head; illustration; indians; kentucky; left; length; man; men; party; rifle; river; savages; shot; time; whetzel; white; wounded; young cache: 26965.txt plain text: 26965.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 27164 author: Eastman, Edwin title: Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography date: None words: 74720 flesch: 67 summary: At such times the taunts and exultation of the victors would sometimes give rise to a quarrel; knives would be drawn and brandished, and a bloody fight seem imminent, but the Yau-pa-sai-na, or Indian policemen, would usually succeed in quelling the disturbance before much harm could be done. Being unskilled in the use of a hoe, I bruised myself severely, for, instead of breaking the soil, I came down with full force on my own limbs and feet; at such times a groan of agony would escape me, which, instead of eliciting sympathy, would only excite laughter. keywords: bear; body; buffalo; buffaloes; camanches; chapter; chief; course; dance; day; days; death; direction; feet; fire; food; ground; hand; head; horses; indian; left; life; lodge; man; medicine; men; moment; morning; mountain; new; night; number; page; party; place; plain; position; prairie; return; savage; saw; scene; temple; thought; time; tribe; valley; village; wakometkla; war; warriors; water; way; wife; women cache: 27164.txt plain text: 27164.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 32228 author: Brayton, Matthew title: The Indian Captive A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Matthew Brayton in his thirty-four years of captivity among the Indians of north-western America date: None words: 18918 flesch: 75 summary: The Snakes at that time hunted in Iowa, but in about a year after my joining them they had repeated quarrels with other tribes, and with the whites. I was then informed that when a child I had been stolen from the whites by a band of Canadian Indians who had by this course revenged themselves on the whites for some real or fancied wrongs; that I had passed through the hands of several tribes and had at last, as I already knew, been sold by the Siouxs to the Snakes, and remained with them until their union with the Copper Heads. keywords: blackfeet; boy; brayton; camp; chief; day; hunting; indians; journey; man; matthew; men; party; ponies; set; time; tribe; warriors; white; women; years cache: 32228.txt plain text: 32228.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 32843 author: Raymond, Evelyn title: The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn date: None words: 74228 flesch: 90 summary: Poor little Sun Maid. To little Gaspar, in his memories, it seemed but a moment's transition from a laughing group about a well-spread table to a scene of horror. keywords: abel; away; boy; chief; child; children; come; dark; day; eyes; face; father; fort; gaspar; girl; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; horse; indian; kitty; life; maid; man; men; mercy; mother; new; osceolo; partridge; people; place; ride; right; spirit; sun; sun maid; things; time; wahneenah; white; woman; young cache: 32843.txt plain text: 32843.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 33344 author: Dodge, John title: Narrative of Mr. John Dodge during his Captivity at Detroit date: None words: 13510 flesch: 53 summary: Henry L. Caldwell, a grandson of Israel Dodge, wrote as follows:--I do not know the date of the death of Colonel John Dodge, neither can I locate his grave or that of my grandfather, Israel Dodge, but the remains of both are, beyond doubt, resting in the old grave yard in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., which adjoins the catholic grave yard. His Excellency President of Congress Philadelphia The Committee to whom was referred the Letter of John Dodge report That they have made the fullest enquiry that the circumstances of the case would admit, relative to the Facts mentioned in said Letter, But have not been able to obtain any Evidence to support them--and are therefore of opinion that the Committee ought to be discharged. keywords: congress; detroit; dodge; fort; general; governor; hamilton; indians; jeane; john; john dodge; letter; prisoners; savages; time; virginia cache: 33344.txt plain text: 33344.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 39898 author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe title: Western Scenes and Reminiscences Together with Thrilling Legends and Traditions of the Red Men of the Forest date: None words: 234304 flesch: 71 summary: If the specific term _inine_, had been introduced in the original, the meaning thereby conveyed would be, in this particular connexion, I am a man with respect to _courage_ &c., in opposition to effeminacy. Their employments be many: First their building of houses, whose frames are formed like our garden-arbours, something more round, very strong and handsome, covered with close-wrought mats of their owne weaving, which deny entrance to any drop of raine, though it come both fierce and long, neither can the piercing North winde, finde a crannie, through which he can conveigh his cooling breath, they be warmer than our _English_ houses; at the top is a square hole for the smoakes evacuation, which in rainy weather is covered with a pluver; these bee such smoakie dwellings, that when there is good fires, they are not able to stand upright, but lie all along under the smoake, never using any stooles or chaires, it being as rare to see an _Indian_ sit on a stoole at home, as it is strange to see an _English_ man sit on his heels abroad. keywords: account; algonquin; america; animal; arms; attention; banks; bear; beaver; body; boy; brother; canoe; cartier; character; chief; children; condition; corn; country; course; cut; day; days; death; distance; early; earth; east; effects; end; english; evening; fact; families; family; father; feet; fine; fire; fish; following; food; forest; forms; fort; french; general; god; good; government; ground; half; hand; head; high; history; home; house; hunter; hunting; indian; influence; interest; iroquois; island; kind; lake; land; language; late; left; length; life; like; living; lodge; making; man; manner; means; men; mexico; michilimackinac; miles; mind; mississippi; moment; morning; mother; mountains; nation; native; new; night; north; northern; number; object; original; page; party; people; period; person; personal; pieces; place; point; position; power; present; public; purpose; race; red; return; river; rock; saw; second; set; settlement; shore; snow; sound; south; spirit; spot; state; stone; stream; subject; sun; superior; system; term; things; thought; time; tree; tribes; use; valley; village; visit; voice; war; water; way; west; western; white; wife; wild; women; wood; word; years cache: 39898.txt plain text: 39898.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 41177 author: Remington, Frederic title: John Ermine of the Yellowstone date: None words: 66614 flesch: 85 summary: He would then depart for the Indian country, which was almost totally unknown to the mining people, and was often followed as far as white men dared to go. He heard reports that the miners were invading the Sioux territory from the south; he knew gold, and he knew white men, and he realized what the combination always produced. keywords: absaroke; bear; big; boy; buffalo; butler; camp; captain; come; day; dogs; ermine; eyes; father; fire; girl; good; gun; hair; half; hand; harding; head; horse; indians; john; lewis; life; major; man; men; mind; miss; morning; new; night; people; ponies; pony; rode; saw; scout; searles; sioux; soldiers; sun; thing; thought; time; voice; war; way; weasel; white; wolf; woman cache: 41177.txt plain text: 41177.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 44934 author: Smith, James title: Captives Among the Indians date: None words: 42499 flesch: 76 summary: He told me also, that a while before, his master, together with other Indians, were going to the French for powder; but I cannot but think what a wolfish appetite persons have in a starving condition; for many times, when they gave me that which was hot, I was so greedy, that I should burn my mouth, that it would trouble me many hours after, and yet I should quickly do the like again. keywords: bark; bear; camp; child; day; days; feet; fire; fort; god; good; ground; head; house; indians; lake; left; little; man; men; miles; morning; night; number; place; river; thought; time; town; water; way cache: 44934.txt plain text: 44934.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 851 author: Rowlandson, Mary White title: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson date: None words: 20317 flesch: 80 summary: I cannot but think what a wolvish appetite persons have in a starving condition; for many times when they gave me that which was hot, I was so greedy, that I should burn my mouth, that it would trouble me hours after, and yet I should quickly do the same again. Then he on the deerskin made a speech, and all manifested assent to it; and so they did many times together. keywords: day; english; god; ground; hand; home; indians; lord; master; night; place; thought; time; wigwam cache: 851.txt plain text: 851.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 879 author: Whittier, John Greenleaf title: The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 date: None words: 2965 flesch: 68 summary: In the immediate vicinity there were but few Indians, and these generally peaceful and inoffensive. In 1695 the township was many times molested by Indians, and several persons were killed and wounded. keywords: boys; garrison; indians; isaac; joseph; night; time cache: 879.txt plain text: 879.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 909 author: Filson, John title: The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke date: None words: 7163 flesch: 59 summary: Just at the close of day the gentle gales retired, and left the place to the disposal of a profound calm. DANIEL BOON CONTAINING A NARRATIVE OF THE WARS OF KENTUCKE From The Discovery and Settlement of Kentucke By John Filson Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. keywords: country; day; great; indians; kentucke; men; number; party; savages; time cache: 909.txt plain text: 909.txt