Identifier: thrillingadventu00fros_1 (find matches)
Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indian captivities
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley Lowell, L. P. Crown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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great satisfaction, having found gold in great abun-
dance. I was not acquainted with the nature of the
ore, but I lifted up what he called gold dust from the
bottom of the little rivulets issuing from the cavities
of the rocks, and it had a yellow cast, and was re-
markably heavy; but so much was the Spaniard
satisfied, he relinquished his plan of prosecuting his
journey, being perfectly convinced that he had found
a country full of gold.
On our return he took a different route, and, when
we reached the Mississippi, we went in a canoe to the
mouth of the Missouri, where we found a Spanish
post; where I was discharged by the Spaniard, went
to the country of the Chickesaws, from thence to the
Cherokees, and soon reached Ninety-six, in South-Carolina.

SINGULAR PREMESS OF A WOMAN IN COMBAT WITH INDIANS

The lady who is the heroine of this story, is named
Experience Bozarth. She lived on a creek called
Dunkard creek, in the south-west corner of West-
moreland county, Pennsylvania. About the middle
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Mrs. Bozarth defending her Dwelling

SINGULAR PROWESS OF A WOMAN. 27

of March, 1779, two or three families who were afraid
to stay at home, gathered to her house, and there
stayed; looking on themselves to be safer than when
all scattered about at their own houses.
On a certain day some of the children thus col-
lected, came running in from play in great haste, say-
ing, there were ugly red men. One of the men in
the house stepped to the door, where he received a
ball in the side of his breast, which caused him to fall
back into the house. The Indian was immediately in
over him, and engaged with another man who was
in the house. The man tossed the Indian on a bed,
and called for a knife to kill him. (Observe these
were all the men that were in the house.) Now Mrs.
Bozarth appears the only defence, who, not finding a
knife at hand, took up an axe that lay by, and with
one blow cut out the brains of the Indian. At that
instant, (for all was instantaneous,) a second Indian
entered the door, and shot the man dead who was
engange with the Indian on the bed.

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