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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER IV
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In all, he took over thirty scalps of warriors, thus killing more Indians than were slain by either one of the two large armies of Braddock and St.Clair during their disastrous campaigns.

Wetzel's frame, like his heart, was of steel.

But his temper was too sullen and unruly for him ever to submit to command or to bear rule over others.

His feats were performed when he was either alone or with two or three associates.

An army of such men would have been wholly valueless.
Brady and his Scouts.
Another man, of a far higher type, was Captain Samuel Brady, already a noted Indian fighter on the Alleghany.


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