Excerpt from Red Men of the Ohio Valley: An Aboriginal History of the Period Commencing A. D. 1650, and Ending at the Treaty of Greenville, A. D. 1795; Embracing Notable Facts and Thrilling Incidents in the Settlement by the Whites of the States of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illionois Virginia has her Pocahontas, Rhode Island her King Philip, Massachusetts her Massasoit, New York her repre sentatives ofindian valor and Indian romance. The ab original records of the Atlantic States have a Witching interest to dwellers in cot or hall, to old or young, to grave or gay. But the Indian history of the West, a mine hith erto almost unwrought, is rich with bolder adventures, more reckless daring, and clearer revelations of the phi los0phy of Indian life, than have ever before been ex hibited in popular history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.