item: #1 of 14 id: 1239 author: Grey, Zane title: The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley date: None words: 90246 flesch: 87 summary: Were those women on the raft? questioned Joe, and as Wetzel only nodded, he continued, A white man and two women, six warriors, Silvertip, and that renegade, Jim Girty! Somehow, Jim Girty got wind of us hevin' a lass aboard, an' he ketched up with us jest below here. keywords: brother; cabin; chief; colonel; dark; day; delaware; edwards; eyes; face; forest; fort; girty; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heckewelder; hunter; indian; jim; jim girty; joe; kate; lay; left; life; like; look; love; man; men; nell; peace; renegade; rifle; savages; silvertip; slowly; tell; time; village; voice; water; way; wells; wetzel; white; winds; wingenund; young; zane cache: 1239.txt plain text: 1239.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 1261 author: Grey, Zane title: Betty Zane date: None words: 102615 flesch: 89 summary: What mysterious force thrilled through Alfred Clarke and made Betty Zane tremble? Miss Boggs, I am twice unfortunate, said Alfred, tuning to Lydia, and there was an earnest ring in his deep voice This time I am indeed blameless. For a hundred years the stories of Betty and Isaac Zane have been familiar, oft-repeated tales in my family--tales told with that pardonable ancestral pride which seems inherent in every one. keywords: alfred; betty; betty zane; black; brother; chief; clarke; col; colonel; colonel zane; come; dark; day; death; door; eyes; face; fire; fort; girl; girty; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; hunter; indians; isaac; jonathan; life; light; little; look; love; man; men; miller; moment; myeerah; rifle; river; room; round; saw; shot; silas; thought; time; tree; voice; water; way; wetzel; white; zane cache: 1261.txt plain text: 1261.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 20455 author: Marshall, Logan title: The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado date: None words: 71896 flesch: 71 summary: The breaking of the Tarleton reservoir, which supplies the drinking water, left the city without water and added great danger of typhoid in the use of flood water. At midnight residents of Dayton watching the course of the flames from across the wide stretch of flood waters believed the fire got its new start in the afternoon in the store of the Patterson Tool and Supply Company, on Third Street, just east of Jefferson, whence it ate its way west, apparently aided by escaping gas and exploding chemicals in two wholesale drug establishments. keywords: boats; bodies; bridge; buildings; business; chapter; children; cincinnati; city; city water; columbus; company; conditions; damage; days; dayton; dead; death; district; east; feet; fire; flood; flood district; flood water; flooded; governor; great; homes; houses; hundreds; life; loss; man; march; men; miles; national; new; night; north; ohio; ohio river; omaha; patterson; people; persons; places; property; railroad; refugees; relief; rescue; river; section; service; situation; south; state; storm; street; suffering; supplies; telephone; thousands; time; tornado; town; tuesday; valley; water; water river; way; west; women; work cache: 20455.txt plain text: 20455.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 26900 author: Great Britain. Board of Trade title: Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 date: None words: 24055 flesch: 33 summary: It is on those _high_, _dry_, and _healthy_ lands, that vineyards would be cultivated to the best advantage, as many of those hills contain quarries of stone, and not in the _low, unhealthy sea coasts_ of our present colonies. It is plain therefore, that the proclamation of October 1763 was _not_ designed, as the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations have suggested, to signify the policy of this kingdom, _against_ settlements _over_ the Allegany mountains, _after_ the King had actually purchased the territory; and that the _true_ reasons for purchasing the lands comprized within that boundary, were to avoid an Indian rupture, and give an opportunity to the King's subjects, quietly and lawfully to settle thereon. keywords: america; colonies; commissioners; country; government; indians; lands; lords; lordships; majesty; mountains; nations; new; ohio; present; river; settlements; time; trade cache: 26900.txt plain text: 26900.txt item: #5 of 14 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 14 id: 27394 author: Peck, John Mason title: A New Guide for Emigrants to the West date: None words: 87559 flesch: 68 summary: | N. | N.W. | E. | W. | CALM. keywords: + =; -----+----------+------------+------------+---------+---------+ |; ------+------+------+------+------+------+ |; = +; = =; = |; acres; arkansas; canal; cincinnati; climate; coal; college; counties; country; creeks; east; eastern; erie; feet; following; french; general; good; government; illinois; indiana; kentucky; lake; land; level; line; little; loam; louis; michigan; miles; mississippi; missouri; new; north; number; ohio; ohio river; parts; people; pittsburg; place; population; portion; prairie; public; region; river; road; rock; salt; sand; school; soil; south; state; streams; surface; territory; timber; time; total; towns; undulating; valley; wabash; water; western; white; years; | +; | -----+----------+------------+------------+---------+---------+; | =; | fort; | page; | |; | |april cache: 27394.txt plain text: 27394.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 29244 author: Withers, Alexander Scott title: Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State date: None words: 185546 flesch: 59 summary: Jew, ----, killed by Indians, 91. Jew, Sally, imprisoned by Indians, 90. Johnson, ----, thought to have been killed by James Smith, 113-115. Johnson, Henry and John, escape from Indians, 415-417. Johnson, Richard M., 348. Johnson, Robert, arrives in Kentucky, 348. Johnson, William, family massacred by Indians, 381, 382. Johnson, Sir William, British Indian superintendent, 108, 136. Johnston, William, of Transylvania, 191. Joliet, Louis, discovers Mississippi, 5, 6. Judah, Henry, kills Indians, 135. Juggins, Elizabeth, adventure with Indians, 309, 310. Juggins, John, killed by Indians, 290. Juniata river, 112, 113. Kanawha county, W. Va., census (1830), 55, 56. Kaskaskia, Ill., 294; founded by La Salle, 6; Salling at, 48; Clark's capture of, 253-255, 257, 258, 260, 411. Assured thus far of the safety of his children, he accompanied his daughter to the fort, and then, in company with a party of the men, returned to his farm, to see if there were any appearance of other Indians being about there. keywords: america; army; attack; battle; body; boone; campaign; capt; captain; chief; children; clark; col; colonel; company; country; creek; danger; day; days; death; distance; dunmore; effect; enemy; escape; expedition; family; fell; field; fire; force; fort; french; frontier; garrison; general; george; good; governor; great; gun; hand; head; henry; history; home; horses; house; indians; inhabitants; james; john; kentucky; land; left; lewis; life; little; logan; making; man; march; men; miles; militia; morning; mouth; mrs; murder; near; new; night; north; object; ohio; party; pitt; place; point; present; prisoners; purpose; pursuit; return; revolution; river; savages; settlements; shot; situation; smith; spring; state; success; thomas; time; towns; treaty; troops; valley; virginia; war; warriors; washington; way; west; western; wheeling; whites; william; wounded; years cache: 29244.txt plain text: 29244.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 29306 author: Thwaites, Reuben Gold title: Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo date: None words: 68151 flesch: 70 summary: Not counting the curious floating boxes and punts, which are knocked together out of driftwood, by boys and poor whites, and are numerous all along shore, the regulation Ohio river skiff is built on graceful lines, but of inch boards, heavily ribbed, and is a sorry weight to handle. Lastly, in the early spring of 1788, came, in Ohio river flatboats, that famous body of New England veterans of the Revolution, under Gen. Rufus Putnam, and planted Marietta--the Plymouth Rock of the West. keywords: air; america; away; bank; beach; big; blue; boat; bottoms; camp; chapter; city; clay; company; country; creek; day; days; doctor; english; feet; find; flood; forest; fort; french; good; great; half; hills; home; house; indian; island; john; kentucky; landing; left; life; little; man; men; miles; morning; mouth; near; new; night; north; ohio; ohio river; people; pilgrim; pittsburg; place; point; railway; river; road; set; shore; stream; sun; time; town; valley; view; village; virginia; washington; water; way; west; western; white; willows; wind; world; years cache: 29306.txt plain text: 29306.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 41030 author: Hulbert, Archer Butler title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 2) date: None words: 35269 flesch: 73 summary: Taking it through the years, few roads have remained of such constant benefit to the territory into which they ran, and today you will be told that no railway has benefited that mountainous district so much as this great thoroughfare. When we returned to the house I asked Mr Simkins to give me his name & the name of the place he asked me the name of the child I told him he took his pen & ink & rote the following lines Alligany County Marriland July the 14^{th} 1796 died John P Allen at the house of John Simkins at atherwayes bear camplain broadaggs old road half way between fort Cumberland & Uniontown.[29] keywords: black; breakfast; coach; company; country; creek; day; feet; genesee; good; great; half; horses; house; journey; lake; man; march; miles; new; night; north; ohio; people; place; river; road; route; set; state; time; town; turnpike; valley; virginia; washington; water; way; west; western; years; york cache: 41030.txt plain text: 41030.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 41067 author: Hulbert, Archer Butler title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 1) date: None words: 33693 flesch: 65 summary: And be it further enacted, by authority of aforesaid, that no wagon or other carriage with wheels the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches, shall be driven along said road between the first day of December and the first day of May following in any year or years, with a greater weight thereon than two and a half tons, or with more than three tons during the rest of the year; that no such carriage, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be seven inches, or being six inches or more shall roll at least ten inches, shall be drawn along said road between the said day of December and May with more than five tons, or with more than five and a half tons during the rest of the year; that no carriage or cart with two wheels, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches, shall be drawn along said road with a greater weight thereon than one and a quarter tons between the said first days of December and May, or with more than one and a half tons during the rest of the year; no such carriage, whose wheels shall be of the breadth of seven inches shall be driven along the said road with more than two and one half tons between the first days of December and May, or more than three tons during the rest of the year; that no such carriage whose wheels shall not be ten inches in width shall be drawn along the said road between the first days of December and May with more than three and a half tons, or with more than four tons the rest of the year; that no cart, wagon or carriage of burden whatever, whose wheels shall not be the breadth of nine inches at least, shall be drawn or pass in or over the said road or any part thereof with more than six horses, nor shall more than eight horses be attached to any carriage whatsoever used on said road, and if any wagon or other carriage shall be drawn along said road by a greater number of horses or with a greater weight than is hereby permitted, one of the horses attached thereto shall be forfeited to the use of said company, to be seized and taken by any of their officers or servants, who shall have the privilege to choose which of the said horses they may think proper, excepting the shaft or wheel horse or horses, provided always that it shall and may be lawful for said company by their by-laws to alter any and all of the regulations here contained respecting burdens or carriages to be drawn over the said road and substituting other regulations, if on experience such alterations should be found conducive of public good. After studying the ground I believe this is more or less incorrect; for what we should call Braddock's route was composed of many roads and tracks. keywords: company; country; day; days; early; good; ground; half; horses; house; indian; kentucky; lancaster; men; miles; mountains; new; night; ohio; old; pack; path; pennsylvania; philadelphia; pioneer; place; river; road; route; states; time; town; trail; trees; turnpike; united; wagon; way; west; winter cache: 41067.txt plain text: 41067.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 44268 author: Sealsfield, Charles title: The Americans as They Are Described in a tour through the valley of the Mississippi date: None words: 41576 flesch: 66 summary: With the exception of places of commerce, such as New Orleans and Natchez, the towns of the state of Mississippi cannot be compared to those of other states of more recent date. Its temperature varies less than that of other states. keywords: american; banks; boats; capital; chapter; city; cotton; country; distance; dollars; feet; french; great; half; houses; inhabitants; kentucky; louisiana; miles; mississippi; new; new orleans; north; ohio; orleans; people; place; point; river; slaves; south; state; steam; time; town; union; united; water; west; years cache: 44268.txt plain text: 44268.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 44823 author: Forman, Samuel S. title: Narrative of a Journey Down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90 date: None words: 18496 flesch: 70 summary: General David Forman conducted himself so well, that General Washington tendered his aid in securing a command in the Continental army; but General Forman declined the offer, as he believed he could be more serviceable to remain with the militia in Monmouth county, New Jersey, as they were continually harassed there by the enemy from Staten Island and New York. Mr. Forman mentions that his father, Samuel Forman, did not escape a visit from the Tories and British. keywords: boat; british; captain; colonel; country; day; family; forman; fort; general; good; indians; jersey; louisville; major; men; natchez; new; place; river; time; uncle; washington; years cache: 44823.txt plain text: 44823.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 48291 author: Grosvenor, Abbie Johnston title: Strange Stories of the Great Valley: The Adventures of a Boy Pioneer date: None words: 46390 flesch: 88 summary: Doby _was_ out of breath, so he nodded. Then he pulled his handkerchief instead of my knife from his pocket, and he wiped my eyes and he gave me the handkerchief, and he patted me on the head and went away-- Here poor Doby broke down completely and used the Jennings linen freely. keywords: away; bear; boy; boys; country; day; doby; dog; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; fort; francis; gave; good; hand; head; holman; home; indians; kenton; kentucky; knife; land; long; man; men; mother; new; night; people; place; river; set; state; stone; thing; thought; time; town; train; vigo; voyageur; wagon; water; white; wild; work cache: 48291.txt plain text: 48291.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 9932 author: Grey, Zane title: The Last Trail date: None words: 73740 flesch: 88 summary: Often in the twilight on a summer evening, while fondling his children and enjoying his smoke after a hard day's labor in the fields, this same settler would see the tall, dark figure of Jonathan Zane step noiselessly out of a thicket, and learn that he must take his family and flee at once to the fort for safety. Wouldn't Mr. Jonathan Zane, borderman, Indian fighter, hero of a hundred battles and never a sweetheart, be flattered? keywords: betty; borderman; brandt; case; colonel; colonel zane; dark; day; eyes; face; forest; fort; girl; good; hand; head; helen; home; indian; jack; jonathan; jonathan zane; lass; lay; leaves; left; legget; life; little; look; love; men; metzar; mordaunt; night; rifle; river; sheppard; time; trail; tree; voice; way; wetzel; white; woman; woods; zane cache: 9932.txt plain text: 9932.txt