[The Winning of the West, Volume Two by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Winning of the West, Volume Two CHAPTER IV 84/101
Many hundreds of these tales could be gathered together; one or two are worth giving, not as being unique, but rather as samples of innumerable others of the same kind. Feat of the Two Poes. In those days [Footnote: 1781, De Haas; Doddridge, whom the other compilers follow, gives a wrong date (1782), and reverses the parts the two brothers played.] there lived beside the Ohio, in extreme northwestern Virginia, two tall brothers, famed for their strength, agility, and courage.
They were named Adam and Andrew Poe.
In the summer of '81 a party of seven Wyandots or Hurons came into their settlement, burned some cabins, and killed one of the settlers.
Immediately eight backwoodsmen started in chase of the marauders; among them were the two Poes. The Wyandots were the bravest of all the Indian tribes, the most dangerous in battle, and the most merciful in victory, rarely torturing their prisoners; the backwoodsmen respected them for their prowess more than they did any other tribe, and, if captured, esteemed themselves fortunate to fall into Wyandot hands.
These seven warriors were the most famous and dreaded of the whole tribe.
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