The Chicago Massacre of 1812, With Illustrations And Historical Documents
The book The Chicago Massacre of 1812, With Illustrations And Historical Documents was written by author Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois At Chicago) Iciu Here you can read free online of The Chicago Massacre of 1812, With Illustrations And Historical Documents book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Chicago Massacre of 1812, With Illustrations And Historical Documents a good or bad book?
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His friends were here — his girl-friend, his own brother's daughter, Rebekah Wells Heald, was here. The thought of their danger summoned him like the sound of a trumpet to share it. He came at the head of a band of thirty INIiami Indians, to guide, guard, help in every way the forlorn hope. It was too late to change the fatal plan, even if he would have tried to do so. He was a soldier, and obedience to orders was a part of his training. Besides, he knew the Indians, and they knew and re- spect...ed him, and an expedition which would be desperate without his presence, might be changed by his help to a reasonable undertaking. If the v/hites had any friends amcng the reds, he would be at the head of those friends to lead them against the unfriendly. How the hearts of the troubled little settlement must have bounded as they saw the help approaching ! Fancy the scene ! On Friday, i\ugu.st 14th, when the sun was sinking in the West, there came along the lake-shore, stretched out beside the yellow sand-hills that extended southward clear down to the oak woods now marking the suburb of 90 THE CHICAGO MASSACRE OF l8l2, Hyde Park, the band of mounted Indians, headed by the good and brave soldier who knew the Indians as well as they knew each other.
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