THE RED MEN OF IOWA.

CHAPTER I.

INDIAN HOSTILITIES IN THE WEST.

Early Settlements in the West--The "Dunmore War"--Massacre of Logan's Family--Battle of Point Pleasant--Fort Gower--Dunmore's Expedition--General Lewis--Indians Sue for Peace--Camp Charlotte--Old Chillicothe--Chief Cornstalk--Treaty at Camp Charlotte--Mingoes Decline to Join in Treaty--Chief Logan--Dunmore's Return--Murder of Cornstalk--Indians Retaliate--Attack on Fort Henry--The Zanes--Elizabeth Zane--Simon Girty--Fort Henry Relieved--Captain Ogle--General Clark's Expedition--Treay with Illinois Indians--Attack at St. Louis--Gallant Defense--La Balme's Expedition--Massacre of Moravians--Col. Crawford's Expedition--Torture and Death of Col. Crawford--Another Expedition under Clark--British Reverses--Indians less Hostile.

THE defeat and humiliation of the great chief Pontiac, who, about the close of the French and English war for the possession of Canada, in 1763, had entered into a conspiracy with the tribes of the Northwest against the English colonies, seemed to open up the way for acquiring possession and occupancy of the vast territory in the west, of which the Indians had hitherto been the sole lords. Settlers began to cross the mountains and take possession of the rich lands in western Virginia, and along the Mo-

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