Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 69

The Yellow Hunter; or, The Winding Trail of Death

Yes, the fearless originator of the greatest Indian conspiracy on record had received a death-blow at the hands of a fellow red-man, and the promise of a barrel of English rum had nerved the villains arm. The bloody deed was committed in the forest of the Illinois, not far from Cahokia, on the Mississippi, and when the base-hearted Kaskaskia fled to his clansmen, with reeking hatchet, they sided with him, and, without a word in palliation of the crime, drove Pontiacs followers from the hamlet. The great Ottawas sachems spread over all the country, crying blood for blood. They fired many a savage heart with the torch of vengeance, and inaugurated a war whose horrors stand without a parallel on the pages of American history. From the bays and rivers that relieve the vast dreary western shore of Lake Michigan, rushed the Sacs, Foxes and Menomonies, to assist in the extirpation of the Illinois and the hated English who dwelt in the neighborhood where the conspirator was assassinated. Out from among the stately pines that cover that mighty peninsula between Huron and her western sister, came the intractable Ojibwa, the giant Ottawa, and the proverbially treacherous but brave Pottawatomie; and being joined on the Wabash by the Wyandots, the Miamies, and other more eastern tribes, they swooped down upon the Eden land that bordered the Father of Waters. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67958
Author: Harbaugh, T. C. (Thomas Chalmers)
Release Date: May 1, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Beadle and Adams,1876
Publication Date: 1876
Publisher Country: United States