Over the ashes of the home and the graves of the loved ones the brothers swore sleepless and eternal vengeance.
The elder brothers have been devoted all these twenty years and more to the killing of Indians; but Lewis has been the great foe of the redman.

You have already seen an example of his deeds, and will hear of more.

His name is a household word on the border.

Scores of times he has saved, actually saved, this fort and settlement.

His knowledge of savage ways surpasses by far Boone's, Major McColloch's, Jonathan's, or any of the hunters'." "Then hunting Indians is his sole occupation ?" "He lives for that purpose alone.