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Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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calling him his dearand esteemed friend. With much difficulty he succeeded in prevailingupon the Indians to leave him in his charge, thus affording him a timelyreprieve. Kenton was finally rescued from their hands through the in-strumentality of the great and good chief, Logan, and was taken as a pris-oner to Detroit. At this point in his career a tinge of romance touched and sweetenedthis wild and reckless life. Kenton was now twenty-four years of age.He was six feet in height, Mrell formed, handsome, and graceful, with afair complexion and laughing gray eyes. He owed his freedom on thisoccasion—as many a handsome young fellow has done before and since,and will do in future—to a woman, the wife of an Indian trader, whosesympathies had been enlisted in behalf of this bold, manly, and good-looking backwoodsman. Seizing a favorable opportunity, when the Indians, whose guns werestacked near her house, were having a drunken spree, she stole out after THE BACKWOODSMEN OF KENTUCKY. 333
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BURNING THE PRISONERS. dark, selected three of their best rifles, and then notified Kenton and histwo companions. She had previously prepared food, ammunition, andclothing for them, which she had secreted in a hollow tree well known toKenton. At the appointed hour they climbed into the garden, receivedthe guns from their benefactress, and, heaping thanks and blessings uponher, hastened away. Kenton never saw her afterwards, but to his latesthour he never forgot her, and delighted in recalling and expatiating uponthe courage and goodness of the traders wife. In 1824 the old pioneer appeared at Frankfort in tattered garments, to INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOrNU petition the legislature of Kentucky to ivlra>e the claim of the State uponsome land owned by him. His appearance at tir-t excited ridicule, but. onbeing recognized, he was treated with distinction and the lands released.

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