Identifier: conqueringwilder00tripuoft (find matches)
Title: Conquering the wilderness; or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America, a full account of the romantic deeds, lofty achievements, and marvellous adventures of Boone, Kenton, Clark, Logan, Harrod, the Wetzel brothers, the Bradys, Poe and other celebrated frontiersmen and Indian fighters ... with picturesque skteches of border life past and present, backwoods camp-meeting, schools and Sunday-schools; heoric fortitude and noble deeds of the pioneer wives and mothers, flatboating, the overland route and its horrors; the gold fever and filibustering expeditions; ... eccentricities and self-sacrificing labors of Cartwright, Axley and other celebrated pioneer preachers, and describing life and adventure on the plains ..
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Triplett, Frank
Subjects: Indians of North America Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Chicago, Werner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e of the tribes partially returnedto a state of cannibalism, and the hearts of several white men werecooked and eaten. While the war was in progress, innumerabledeeds of bloodshed and cruelty were enacted by the savages, andduring these terrible scenes, the heroism of the border Avomen wasoften made manifest. One of the most notable occasions was theone we will now narrate. Prior to the beginning of this war, a Mr. Porter had removed tothe Sinking Valley, in Huntington County, Pennsylvania. He wasaccompanied by his wife, the couple having no children. The por-tion of Virginia from which they had removed, had long since ceasedto be infested by the savages, but neither Mr. Porter nor his wife, 286 cojSTQUeeing the wilderness. was a stranger to their character and their fiendishness.. It hap-pened on one occasion, when her husband had gone to mill, that Mrs.Porter saw an Indian, hideously painted and heavily armed, approach-ing the house. Knowing that, in so open a structure as her cabin
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she could not repel a siege, she determined upon a bold, butdesperate expedient. Taking down her husbands rifle, she placed it in a convenientposition, and getting his heavy sabre (for her husband was a militiacaptain 1) she opened the door sufficiently wide for a jDcrson to pass MRS. DAVIESS AND MRS. PORTER. 287 in, and then so secured it that it could not be pushed wide open.The savages, who had doubtless, from some convenient ambush, wit-nessed the departure of her husband, advanced with the utmost con-fidence, though at some distance from each other, and in single file.Their conduct showed conclusively that they had no idea of the recep-tion awaiting them. Beaching the door, behind which Mrs. Porter was hidden, the firstIndian entered leisurely, and was about to make himself at home,when, with a rapid sweep of the sabre, the brave woman cleft hisskull, and without a sigh or a groan, he fell dead. The second followedquickly in his leaders footsteps, and like him fell beneath the ed

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