Legends of the West Sketches Illustrative of the Habits Occupations Privation
Legends of the West Sketches Illustrative of the Habits Occupations Privation
James Hall
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239 Simple, honest, and inoffensive in their manners, kind and just to each other, they were intrepid, fierce, and vindictive in war. Under an appearance of apathy, with a gait of ap parent indolence, and with careless habits, they were muscu lar and hardy, patient of fatigue, ardent in their temperament, warm-hearted and hospitable. They were the borderers of Virginia and North Carolina, where they had long formed a rampart between the less warlike inhabitants and the savage tribes. In the war... of the revolution they had engaged with ardour ; but while the acknowledgement of our national inde- pendence brought peace to the rest of our country, it left the frontiers still embroiled with the savages. The backwoodsmen, therefore, when they first emigrated into the western forests, had not to learn the rude arts of sylvan life, nor to study the habits of the Indian and the beast of prey. These were enemies with whom they had long been familiar, and with whom they delighted to cope. They lived in cabins hastily erected for temporary shelter, and as hastily abandoned when a slight allurement at some distant spot invited them to change their residence.
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