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Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian Wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: Boston, L. P. Crown & Co. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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rew histomahawk. She begged for life, and a Tory namedSmith seconded her intercession. The Indian shookhis tomahawk in defiance, and, with a blow, clove herskull. The wife of Samuel Dunlop, an aged minister,was killed; the old man was saved by a Mohawkchief, named Little Aaron, but he died in about a yearin consequence of the shock then received. A Mr.Mitchell escaped to the woods; the Indians murderedhis wife and four children, and fired his house. Hereturned the next day, and, without a companion toassist him, carried his family on a sled to the fort andhad them buried. Colonel Campbell was then fromhome; on his return, he beheld his house in flamesand his wife and children carried into captivity.Thirty-two inhabitants, principally women and chil-dren, were killed, and sixteen soldiers. Some fewmade their way to the Mohawk river; the remainderwere taken prisoners. Nearly all the houses andbarns were burned. Subsequently the settlementwas entirely abandoned. 112 THRILLING ADVENTURES.
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While the American army, under General Taylor,was stationed at Monterey, Major McCulloch with asmall party of men was sent from that city to SanAntonio. After crossing the Nueces about noon, theparty dismounted, and, placing their horses near by,lay down upon the grass to rest. Suddenly twoCamanche Indians galloped among the horses, andeffected what is called by Spaniards a stampede, whichconsists in so frightening those animals as to hurry i ATTACK UPON AMERICAN TRAINS. 113 them away at a headlong pace. Happily for theparty, McCullochs horse, and that of Captain Ches-hire, remained quiet. These two officers immediatelymounted and hurried after the Indians. The majorreaching them first, received several arrows, one ofwhich wounded his horse. He dismounted and drewhis revolver, but it would not go off. McCulloch andone of the Indians now began to manoeuvre, whilethe other Indian was creeping behind the major, soas to shoot him with his rifle. At this crisis, Ches-hire arrived; McCulloc

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