Excerpts from the Book 'The Frontier Angel':

... of the Ohio river, stands a small town, which, at the close of the last century, numbered about thirty dwellings. Although properly a border settlement ...
... to float with the current alone. The sides were bullet-proof, and the shape of the thing was similar to a box. About three-fourths of the length were ...
... doing his purtiest to git you into shore to please that other trap.. Outrageous. shameful. exclaimed several, horrified at the blunt, plain-spoken ...
... upon his hands and knees, and glided swiftly and noiselessly away, and commenced reconnoitring the stranger to ascertain his identity and intentions. Now, ...
... at the ends in the usual manner, and the interstices filled in with mortar. The doors and windows and shutters were bars of ponderous puncheons, ...
... apprehension, as could have been the noise of approach. You don't cotch Dingle asleep in the night-time, or when there's reds about. It would do ...
... Cherokees, and Creeks, was effected, and perpetual, unceasing war was declared against them. Finding the country too hot to hold them, the Shawnees ...
... near the middle, and dipping his paddle in the water, shot rapidly toward the opposite bank. It was now quite dark, and by keeping near the center ...
... be expected there would be a single dissenting voice as to his fate, and there was none. But the question was whether the war-expedition should be deferred ...
... withstand forty-three Shawnee Indians.. Were there that many who assailed you.. Well, I couldn't say positively now-perhaps more or less. To ...
... that the whites were abundantly prepared for the assault. Growing bolder and bolder, at the continued silence within the block-house, one of the ...
... half to death.. Hammer away, but if your head isn't cracked before five minutes, I'll stand treat, boys.. The astonishment shown by Jenkins at ...
... then, how come you to find me.. We looked for ye.. I s'pose, but you didn't s'peck I was such a cussed fool to go off in the woods ...
... who had nearly recovered, raised a regular war-whoop, and joined in the chase. Late at night, several of the pursuers returned, moody and sullen ...
... her among the Indians.-. At this point, she turned deadly pale, and sank to the earth. That singularly foolish notion, that it was fatal to touch ...
... Frontier Angel was now hurrying in toward the Kentucky shore, swiftly followed by that of the renegade. She had approached so nigh as to be hidden to ...
... desire has been to get ahead as fast as possible, and yet they felt ashamed to either look behind them, or to increase their gait. If they have, ...
... she was wilder than before, and he retreated at once. From her actions, she seemed to imagine him to be the renegade McGable, and no words upon his ...
... in our search.. -Sh. some one approaches. admonished the guide. The snapping of a twig was heard, and presently the footsteps of persons. Our ...
... the war of 1812, Russel Mansfield acted as Colonel, and at its close retired to his farm near Maysville, covered with honor and glory. Here he lived with ...