THE INDIAN:

ON THE BATTLE-FIELD AND IN THE WIGWAM.

By John Frost

Wentworth & Company,

1857

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CONTENTS

PREFACE.

STORIES OF THE INDIANS.

INDIAN GRATITUDE.

INDIAN FRIENDSHIP.

THE CAPTIVE SISTER.

PARENTAL AFFECTION.

THE FRIENDLY MANOEUVRE.

GRAND-SUN.

TECUMSEH AND THE PROPHET.

THE DESTRUCTION OF MONTREAL.

A BUFFALO HUNT.

TREATMENT OF INDIAN CHILDREN.

MRS. HANSON AND HER CHILDREN

THE STORY OF SHON-KA.

THE DEATH OF CANONCHET.

CHURCH AND THE NARRAGANSETT.

THE DEATH OF KING PHILIP.

THE RAIN MAKERS.

THE BRIDE'S RESCUE.

YONDEEGA'S GRATITUDE.

THE BURNING OF DEERFIELD.

THE FIRE-WATER.

FARMER'S BROTHER.

THE PROPHET OF THE ALLEGHANY.

PETER OTSAQUETTE.

PERFIDY PUNISHED.

ADVENTURE OF GENERAL PUTNAM.

THE INDIANS OF ST. MARY'S.

RED JACKET.

THE BATTLE OF SACO POND.

WINGINA

HAROLD DEAN; OR, THE INDIAN'S REVENGE.

BIENVILLE'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CHICKASAWS.

PREFACE.

These sketches are drawn from a great variety of sources, and are intended, not only to exhibit the Indian character in all its phases, but to comprise in a small compass a valuable collection of narratives of Indian warfare, embracing views of their peculiar methods of strategy, ambuscades, and surprises—their treatment of prisoners, and their other characteristic manners and customs.

By the aid of Mr. Croome, and other eminent artists, I