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Simon Girty

Author : Edward Butts
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459700759
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Simon Girty written by Edward Butts and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty’s name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential in convincing the tribes to fight for the British. The Americans declared Girty an outlaw. In U.S. history books he is a villain even worse than Benedict Arnold. Yet in Canada, Girty is regarded as a Loyalist hero, and a historic plaque marks the site of his homestead on the Ontario side of the Detroit River. In Native history, Girty stands out as one of the few white men who championed their cause against American expansion. But was he truly the "White Savage" of legend, or a hero whose story was twisted by his foes?

Girty

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813180392
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Girty written by Richard Taylor and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with Benedict Arnold, Simon Girty was one of the most hated men in early America. The son of an Irish immigrant, he was raised on the western Pennsylvania frontier but was captured by the Senecas as a teenager and lived among them for several years. This able frontiersman might be seen today as a defender of Native Americans, but in his own time he was branded as a traitor for siding with First Nations and the British during the Revolutionary War. He fought fiercely against Continental Army forces in the Ohio River Valley and was victorious in the bloody Battle of Blue Licks. In this classic work, Richard Taylor artfully assembles a collage of passages from diaries, travel accounts, and biographies to tell part of the notorious villain's story. Taylor uses the voice of Girty himself to unfold the rest of the narrative through a series of interior monologues, which take the form of both prose and poetry. Moments of torture and horrifying bloodshed stand starkly against passages celebrating beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Throughout, Taylor challenges perceptions of the man and the frontier, as well as notions of white settler innocence. Simon Girty's bloody exploits and legend made him hated and feared in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, but many who knew him respected him for his convictions, principles, and bravery. This evocative work brings to life a complex figure who must permanently dwell in the borderland between myth and fact, one foot in each domain.

The Frontiersmen

Author : Allen W. Eckert
Publisher : Jesse Stuart Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1931672814
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Frontiersmen written by Allen W. Eckert and published by Jesse Stuart Foundation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan W. Eckert's dramatic history. Against the background of such names as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has recreated the life of one of America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in opening the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his eighteenth birthday, Kenton had already won frontier renown as woodsman, fighter and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the ideal prototype of the frontier hero. Yet there is another story to The Frontiersmen. It is equally the story of one of history's greatest leaders, whose misfortune was to be born to a doomed cause and a dying race. Tecumseh, the brilliant Shawnee chief, welded together by the sheer force of his intellect and charisma an incredible Indian confederacy that came desperately close to breaking the thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the story of his life, in Allan Eckert's hands, reveals most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the American Indian. No less importantly, The Frontiersmen is the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement, and it is Eckert's particular grace to be able to evoke life and meaning from the raw facts of this story. In The Frontiersmen not only do we care about our long-forgotten fathers, we live again with them.

History Of The Girtys

Author : Consul Willshire Butterfield
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789354218446
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book History Of The Girtys written by Consul Willshire Butterfield and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Simon Girty

Author : Thomas Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948986502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Simon Girty written by Thomas Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps few other frontiersmen of the early Revolutionary period were as complicated as the notorious Simon Girty. A native of Pennsylvania, Girty spent years of his childhood as a captive of the Seneca, eventually assimilating into its culture. During Lord Dunmore's War, Girty fought alongside Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone as a spy and scout for the British forces. Although initially supporting the Americans in the Revolution, Girty switched sides in 1778 and fought the remainder of the war against the colonials. After the war, Girty continued to fight against American encroachment on native territories. He settled in Canada and died there in 1818. His unusual life reflected the decades during which the "middle ground" was built and contested by native Americans and the British and French colonial empires.

A History of Jonathan Alder

Author : Henry Clay Alder
Publisher : The University of Akron Press
ISBN 13 : 9781884836985
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book A History of Jonathan Alder written by Henry Clay Alder and published by The University of Akron Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1830s or early 1840s, probably at the insistence of his family and friends, Alder composed his memoirs, in which he recounted his life with the Ohio Indians and his experiences as one of the area's earliest pioneers."--Jacket.

That Dark and Bloody River

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307790460
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book That Dark and Bloody River written by Allan W. Eckert and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.

Simon Girty

Author : Charles McKnight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simon Girty written by Charles McKnight and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Simon Girty

Author : Edward Butts
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554889502
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Simon Girty written by Edward Butts and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty’s name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential in convincing the tribes to fight for the British. The Americans declared Girty an outlaw. In U.S. history books he is a villain even worse than Benedict Arnold. Yet in Canada, Girty is regarded as a Loyalist hero, and a historic plaque marks the site of his homestead on the Ontario side of the Detroit River. In Native history, Girty stands out as one of the few white men who championed their cause against American expansion. But was he truly the "White Savage" of legend, or a hero whose story was twisted by his foes?

Simon, Peter and Polly, 1775-1825

Author : Madeline Hilborn Malott
Publisher : Kingsville, Ont. : M.H. Malott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Simon, Peter and Polly, 1775-1825 written by Madeline Hilborn Malott and published by Kingsville, Ont. : M.H. Malott. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of an imaginative recreation of the lives of Simon Girty, as well as Peter and Polly Malott, with extensive genealogical information.

Peckuwe 1780

Author : John F. Winkler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472828860
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Peckuwe 1780 written by John F. Winkler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their settlements in Kentucky, Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and other frontiersmen guided an army of 970 Kentuckians into what is now Ohio to attack the principal Native American bases from which the raids emanated. This superbly illustrated book traces Colonel George Rogers Clark's lightning expedition to destroy Chalawgatha and Peckuwe, and describes how on 8 August 1780 his Kentuckians clashed with an army of 450 Native Americans, under Black Hoof, Buckongahelas and Girty, at the battle of Peckuwe. It would be the largest Revolutionary War battle on the Ohio River frontier.

A Woman of Courage on the West Virginia Frontier

Author : Robert Thompson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162584011X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book A Woman of Courage on the West Virginia Frontier written by Robert Thompson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Robert Thompson recounts the harrowing story of Phebe Tucker Cunningham, from her marriage at Prickett's Fort to her return to the shores of the Monongahela. Life on the West Virginia frontier was a daily struggle for survival, and for Phebe Tucker Cunningham, that meant the loss of her four children at the hands of the Wyandot tribe and being held captive for three years until legendary renegades Simon Girty and Alexander McKee arranged her freedom. Thompson describes in vivid detail early colonial life in the Alleghenies and the ways of the Wyandot, providing historical context for this unforgettable saga.

The Taking of Jemima Boone

Author : Matthew Pearl
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062937812
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Taking of Jemima Boone written by Matthew Pearl and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy Schiff A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders’ leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky's most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good. With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring greater peace both to the tribes and the colonists. But after the girls find clever ways to create a trail of clues, the raiding party is ambushed by Boone and the rescuers in a battle with reverberations that nobody could predict. As Matthew Pearl reveals, the exciting story of Jemima Boone’s kidnapping vividly illuminates the early days of America’s westward expansion, and the violent and tragic clashes across cultural lines that ensue. In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into America’s transition from colony to nation, with the heavy moral costs incurred amid shocking new alliances and betrayals.

History of Wetzel County, West Virginia

Author : John C. McEldowney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book History of Wetzel County, West Virginia written by John C. McEldowney and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Squirrel Hill

Author : Squirrel Hill Historical Society
Publisher : American Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781467136259
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Squirrel Hill written by Squirrel Hill Historical Society and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood began on the frontier of western Pennsylvania 250 years ago and developed into a vibrant urban community. Early settler John Turner, half brother of renegade Simon Girty, survived capture by Native Americans and experienced firsthand the change from dangerous wilderness to established farming community. Wealthy landowners Henry Clay Frick and Mary Schenley bestowed Squirrel Hill its grand public parks. Hyman Little, Herman Kamin and countless others moved to the hill and made it Pittsburgh's premier Jewish community, with a tightknit cluster of synagogues, temples and a thriving business district. The Squirrel Hill Historical Society and editor Helen Wilson explore the fascinating history of one of Pittsburgh's historic neighborhoods.

A Man of Distinction Among Them

Author : Larry Lee Nelson
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387002
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Man of Distinction Among Them written by Larry Lee Nelson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half Shawnee and fathered by a white trader, McKee played a pivotal go-between role in Great Lakes Indian affairs for nearly fifty years.

Boy's Book of Frontier Fighters

Author : Edwin L. Sabin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Boy's Book of Frontier Fighters written by Edwin L. Sabin and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: