Identifier: winningofwestacc07roos (find matches)
Title: The winning of the West; an account of the exploration and settlement of our country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Subjects: Mississippi River Valley -- History Ohio River Valley -- History Northwest, Old -- History Louisiana -- History Kentucky -- History Tennessee -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia, Gebbie and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ght in Seviers arms on the other side;through a loophole he had already shot the head-most of her pursuers. Soon after the baffled Otari retreated fromRobertsons fort the other war-parties likewise leftthe settlements. The Watauga men, togetherwith the immediately adjoining Virginian fron-tiersmen, had beaten back their foes unaided, savefor some powder and lead they had received fromthe older settlements; and, moreover, had in-flicted more loss than they suffered. They hadmade an exceedingly vigorous and successftilfight. The outlying settlements scattered along thewestern border of the Carolinas and Georgia hadbeen attacked somewhat earlier; the Cherokees American Archives, 5th Series, i., 973. Of the Wataugasettlers eighteen men, two women, and several children hadbeen killed; two or three were taken captive. Of the Indianstwenty-six were scalped; doubtless several others were slain.Of course, these figures only apply to the Watauga neighbor-hood. Escape of Kate Sherrill. .\unj\\2.
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The Revolution 91 from the lower towns, accompanied by someCreeks and tories, beginning their ravages in thelast days of June/ A small party of Georgianshad, just previously, made a sudden march intothe Cherokee country. They were trying to cap-ture the British agent Cameron, who, being mar-ried to an Indian wife, dwelt in her town, andowned many negroes, horses, and cattle. TheCherokees, who had agreed not to interfere, brokefaith and surprised the party, killing some andcapturing others, who were tortured to death.^ The frontiers were soon in a state of wild panic;for the Cherokee inroad was marked by the usualfeatures. Cattle were driven off, houses burned,plantations laid waste, while the women and chil-dren were massacred indiscriminately with themen.3 The people fled from their homes andcrowded into the stockade forts; they weregreatly hampered by the scarcity of guns andammunition, as much had been given to thetroops called down to the coast by the war withBritain. All the sout

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