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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER IV
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[Footnote: Calendar of Virginia State Papers, I., pp.

502, 597, etc.; II., pp.

108, 116, 264, 345.

The Kentuckians were far more eager for action than the Pennsylvanians.] The fort at the Falls, where Clark already had some troops, was appointed as a gathering-place for the different detachments that were to join him; but from one cause or another, all save one or two failed to appear.

Most of them did not even start, and one body of Pennsylvanians that did go met with an untoward fate.


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