Category: Historical Novels
Not a sound disturbs the stillness of the wood; but just at the edge of the meager clearing that lies before the cabin, a little river flows northward with a low noise, for it is almost bank full.
To the former some of the events of Wolf Den was not unknown. Wolf-Cap had spoken truly when he told his companions that the cave had once served as the rendezvous of the outlaw...
2. CHAPTER II.The reader has heard Wolf-Cap aver that he was not an illegal squatter on the fire-lands, and while he prepares to sustain the defiance nailed to his cabin door, let us inquire...
4. CHAPTER IV.Wolf-Cap entertained several good reasons for suggesting Strong’s fort as a place of refuge for the Armstrong family. Throop’s block-house was nearer the settler’s cabin than St...
5. CHAPTER V.The numerous stumps in the clearing sheltered no feathered head; but the whites knew that their enemies had not raised the siege. The greater portion of the dusky besiegers had...
1. CHAPTER I.Not a sound disturbs the stillness of the wood; but just at the edge of the meager clearing that lies before the cabin, a little river flows northward with a low noise, for it i...
7. CHAPTER VII.“The traitor shall die!” he cried. “Let every one look to his neighbor, and watch him closely. As for myself, I believe that Morg Sawyer is the villain; but he is beyond our pow...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Fort Strong could not have successfully resisted an assault of the allies on the stockade. The settlers knew this; but were determined that the foe should be met with courage as...
13. CHAPTER XIII.He found Royal Funk but slightly wounded, and, with Whalley and Zigler, the two guards drugged by Spagano, closely watched by the troops. Funk looked daggers at the officers as...
3. CHAPTER III.Strong’s block-house so frequently alluded to in the foregoing pages, had been erected as a place of refuge for the inhabitants of the “fire-lands.” It was a large structure, ca...
11. CHAPTER XI.“Murphy,” he said, his anger slumbering but not appeased. “Murphy, you, with two men, will await the arrival of the command at this point, and will proceed with it to the destin...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The reader will recollect that Wolf-Cap dismissed his Indian allies, Silver Hand and Golden Cheek, beneath the palisades of Fort Strong, a few moments prior to his appearance am...
6. CHAPTER VI.During the brief period of time that intervened between the battle at the gates and the discharge of blazing arrows at the fort itself, the beautiful fire-lands had not escaped...
12. CHAPTER XII.“White girl go,” he said, looking at Huldah, who stood over him undecided how to act. “Indian got to die here. English bullet cut life-string. The red-coat soldier want girl; he...
9. CHAPTER IX.The Wyandot hated, detested the British, Colonel O’Neill particularly; but he had sold his nation to the English cause, and he must not, in a single act, manifest an abatement o...
10. CHAPTER X.An hour after the departure of the exiles, night spread her pall over the earth, and two men scaled the stockade of Fort Strong and glided toward the hill lately tenanted by the...