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Identifier: ghostofglacierot01hunt (find matches)
Title: Ghost of the glacier and other tales
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Hunter, Will Bogert. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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yed. Sullivans army did its work effectually. For three weeksit marched unmolested through beautiful Genesee Valley,destroying everything before it. The return journey wasalong Susquehanna Trail. This campaign broke the backbone of Indian uprisingsin the eastern country. So terribly did the savages sulTer inloss of braves and property that from that day the Britishnever could induce them to enter the war either in greatnumbers or with their old-time savage spirit. Future Indianuprisings remained for the savages of the west, who hadhad no lesson in the white mans mode of warfare. LACKAWANNA RESORTS. PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA. Pittston, scenically unrivaled in all America, was thevery heart of the struggles between the settlers from Con-necticut and those from Pennsylvania for the possession ofthe Wyoming Valley. Situated at the junction of the Sus-quehanna and Lackawanna rivers it was a point of strate-NAY AUG TUNNEL, gical importaucc. This the Indians recognized before the NKAR SCRANTON.
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Copyright, 1900, Detroit Photographic Co advent of the whites, for here, at the foot of CampbellsLedge, one of the most striking inland promontories in theworld, they builded their village of Assernghny, using thetop of the precipice behind as the site for their beacon fires.Here was the site of Fort Jenkins, erected by the hardy NewEnglanders in 1778. Directly across the river was FortOgden and the Pittston Stockades. Just below was LACKAWANNA RESORTS, Fort VVintermoot. Upon these forts the Indians of the SixNations, under the command of the British general, JohnButler, descended from Tioga Point, further up the Susque-hanna, to begin the tragedy which has gone down into his-tory as the Wyoming massacre. The last vestige of the fortslong since disappeared ; but Monocacy Island, to whichescaping occupants of the forts swam to be murdered in cold

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