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[Illustration: THE WOUNDED PIONEER.]




HEROES AND HUNTERS OF THE WEST:

COMPRISING SKETCHES AND ADVENTURES
OF
BOONE, KENTON, BRADY, LOGAN, WHETZEL,
FLEEHART, HUGHES, JOHNSTON, &c.

PHILADELPHIA:
H. C. PECK & THEO. BLISS.
1860.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853,

BY H. C. PECK & THEO. BLISS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.




CONTENTS.

Daniel Boone.                                              11
Simon Kenton.                                              19
George Rogers Clarke.                                      24
Benjamin Logan.                                            32
Samuel Brady.                                              38
Lewis Whetzel.                                             45
Caffree, M'Clure, and Davis.                               58
Charles Johnston.                                          66
Joseph Logston.                                            74
Jesse Hughes.                                              81
Siege of Fort Henry.                                       87
Simon Girty.                                              103
Joshua Fleehart.                                          118
Indian Fight on the Little Muskingum.                     129
Escape of Return J. Meigs.                                137
Estill's Defeat.                                          144
A Pioneer Mother.                                         154
The Squatter's Wife and Daughter.                         167
Captain William Hubbell.                                  173
Murder of Cornstalk and his Son.                          185
The Massacre of Chicago.                                  189
The Two Friends.                                          211
Desertion of a young White Man, from a party of Indians. 