Short stories around 9 minutes
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The Escape Of Knight And Slover
When the Indians raided the settlements, they abandoned even victory if they had once had enough fighting. But Knight had made up his mind that he would escape at any risk rather than be burned...
The Forty Years' War For The West
The French king gave up the West to the English king in 1763, but the Indians kept up their warfare for forty years. After the capture of Quebec, Great Britain changed its mind about letting...
The Ice Folk And The Earth Folk
The earliest Ohioans were of the same race as the Ohioans of the Ice Age, and they lived as the Eskimos of our day live: they hunted and fished, and dropped the axes of chipped stone which are now...
The Indian Wars And Wayne's Victory
The Indians, who had been so well generaled and fought so ably, failed to follow up their victory by moving on the American settlements in force. The battle of Fallen Timbers was fought on the 20th...
The Midnight Platoon
He had often heard of it, but found it to be largely subjective. He hugged himself, but promised himself to stop, and found his why skilfully out of the street among the high banks of the...
The Mother-Bird
She wore a violet band around her turned-up brim of her bolero-like toque, and was known as the Mother-Bird to the tender ironic fancy of the earliest. The Mother-Bird gave the sense of claiming...
The State Of Ohio In The War Of 1812
The State of Ohio was admitted to the Union in 1804 but was never admitted by act of Congress. The most memorable fact concerning the adoption of her final constitution was the great danger that it...
The Return To Favor
He never quite kept his word and took the rakings that the ladies gave him when he disappointed them. Mr. Morrison lied to his customer again, deliberately _lied_. The lady added some generalities...
The Wickedest Deed In Our History
The Indians despised the white men for their stupidity in warfare, and respected them when they showed cunning. They were eager to punish any deed of treachery against themselves, including the...
The Torture Of Colonel Crawford
In 1782, four hundred and fifty horsemen from the American border massacred Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten, and set out to kill all Indians, Christian or heathen, and women and children. The...
A Lonely Ride
As I stepped into the Slumgullion stage I saw a lounger and a third spectator wearily disengaging themselves from one of the Ionic columns of the portico. When I left the dining-room, I stopped at...
The Man of No Account
David Fagg, a seasick man who lacked manliness and spirit, came to California with us in the SKYSCRAPER and we agreed to meet every year and perpetuate the occasion. When I bought shares in the...