Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774
Throughout 1773 the dread of another Indian upris ing lay heavy upon the hearts of Virginians, and the unprovoked massacre of young Boone and Russell, in Powell's Valley, in October, was considered a har binger of evil. Through the long winter days, tales of raid and captivity on the Virginia borders, in 1755 and 1763, were rehearsed at every hearthstone -the attack on Draper's Meadows, when Colonel Patton was shot down, and the wives and children of Draper and I'ngles carried to the Scioto villages and the raid led by the Shawnee war chief Cornstalk, who.
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