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This volume of pioneer and frontier life in the Midwest was published in 1920. Excerpts from the book: The early history of Ohio would be somewhat simplified if there were any records of the precolon- ial settlers. But hardly more is known of the individual "squatters" than of the ever-roving trappers and hunters. These frontiersmen recog- nized no law or land-title except what was termed the "tomahawk-right," registered with a tomahawk on a forest tree. They made small clearings, built cabins, raised crops for a few years and then per- haps moved on to some other point. As a rule they antagonized the Indians who shrewdly perceived the nature and consequences of the coming of this white-faced foe. Historical justice — -the only kind now possible— will never be done the Indians of the Ohio Valley until it is frankly admitted that the white man was an invader, opening his invasion by doing wanton injury and provoking violence in re- turn. The story of the devoted but ill-fated Mora- vians affords the chief if not the only record of honor on the part of the coming people in those years preceding 1787. The Moravians must be regarded as forming the first company settlement; they were also the first whites to discover a way of justice and humanity for dealing with the Indians; but they, in common with their Indian friends, fell victims to savage white men. It should not surprise us that the Indians fought desperately and in their own fashion for the lands of their fathers. It was a defence that would have been honored as nobly patriotic if made by any European people. But in a racial struggle so un- equal there could be only one outcome. In their defeat at the battle of Fallen Timbers, 1794, the Indians recognized their fate. The treaty made the following summer was signed by ninety chiefs and delegates from twelve tribes, including the two famous chiefs, Little Turtle of the Miamis and Blue Jacket of the Shawanees; while their conqueror, General Wayne, signed for the white man's govern- ment. Perpetual peace and amity were declared; the tribes placed themselves under the protection of the United States, trading territory for sums of money agreed upon and the prescribed "protection." The settlement of the Indian troubles, added to the formation of the Northwestern Territory, led naturally and promptly to a distinct movement for colonization. Indeed, various companies of colon- ists were already on Ohio soil prior to the Treaty of 1795. The Ohio Land Company, formed in Massachusetts, purchased a large tract of land in 1787, — the same year, it will be observed, that the Ordinance was passed. The actual group of pioneers representing this Ohio Land Company, un- der the leadership of Rufus Putnam, established a settlement on the banks of the Muskingum in 1788. Later in 1788 John Symmes with a company of thirty colonists having for their destination the val- ley of the Big Miami started from New Jersey, crossed the mountains and struck out for the Miami country, a region that had been described to them as "the fairest meadows that ever can be." During the next fifteen years settlers either as single families or in groups made their way into the region north of the Ohio, usually coming down the river by boat to the mouths of the northern tribu- taries and then ascending these streams. Thus settlements were made on the Muskingum, the Scioto, the Big Miami and the Little Miami. These streams were natural thoroughfares and gave access to the interior before anything that could be called a road was yet in existence through the dense for- ests. These pioneers came from Massachusetts and Connecticut, from New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania, from Maryland and Virginia and Kentucky. The population of the new Territory was thus composite from the start.

One October day in 1917 a far-traveled Pierce- Arrow car paused on the highway half a mile east of Granville, Ohio, and turning to the left took its course southward down a steep grade into an uninviting by-road. Going a few hundred yards it was stopped by a bridge, obviously frail, and the occupants of the car continued their explorations on foot. Where was that ever-flowing stream of artesian well-water which once came into existence when borings were made to find coal? An old woman from a solitary house explained that a disagreement over boundaries had provoked one of the parties to plug the pipe, and so the water flowed no more. Since when had cows been grazing in the mill-race, — once the home of catfish and mud-turtles? Just where did the forebay reach across the cart-road from the race to the big wheel, — that leaky forebay with its ever ready shower-bath? How long had the mill itself been gone? The automobile turned back and took its pilgrims to a district north of the highway. "The frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock" where formerly a willow-bordered mill-pond had welcomed skaters and fishermen and swimming boys, according to the season. Was there not corn-land enough in Licking County that Norton Case's good mill-pond should be thus sacrificed? A visit was made to a certain

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Excerpt from Wild Turkeys and Tallow CandlesAs regards material for Part I, all who are acquainted with Bushnell's History of Granville will recognize my indebtedness to that work; and next to Bushnell's book I am under obligations to Isaac Smucker's various historical writings. Both of these authors rendered Signal service to Licking County and so to Ohio itself by their timely collection of historical material. It is perhaps not necessary to mention other writers of Ohio history - a rather long list has been consulted - but from all their books I single out one, now unfortunately out of print: Morris Schaft's Etna and Kirkersville, a book as charming as it is unpretentious, written by a man whose experiences in cities and on battlefields seem to have rendered only the more unfading and imperishable the recollections of his pioneer boy hood. I have kept this book at my elbow to remind me constantly that I am not writing history in Part II; I am only developing some negatives personally acquired long ago. General Schaff has the advantage of me by eleven years' seniority; he remembers more things and remembers them in greater detail than I do. Yet it will be seen that I share with him the happy distinction of belonging to the pioneer epoch. We lived in different though neighboring communities; and I can at least hope to supplement his narrative with further sketches of those tallow candle days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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