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Title: Chronicles of Border Warfare
or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of
North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres
in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that
section of the State

Author: Alexander Scott Withers

Editor: Reuben Gold Thwaites

Release Date: June 26, 2009 [EBook #29244]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note

This is a 1971 reprint edition of the 1895 edition of "Chronicles of
Border Warfare." The modern title page and verso have been relocated
to the end of the text.

The 1895 edition includes and expands on the original 1831 edition.
Throughout this text, the pagination of the original edition is
indicated by brackets, such as [54].

Capitalization standards for the time (i.e. "fort Morgan," "mrs.
Pindall," "Ohio river") have been preserved.

Variable hyphenation has been preserved.

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.

Author's punctuation style has been preserved.

Typographical problems have been corrected as listed in the
Transcriber's Note at the end of the text.

Passages in italics are indicated by _underscores_.

CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE

[Illustration]

CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE

OR, A

History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western
Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres
in that section of the State

WITH

REFLECTIONS, ANECDOTES, &c.

BY

ALEXANDER SCOTT WITHERS

A New Edition

EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY

REUBEN GOLD THWAITES

Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, editor of "Wisconsin
Historical Collections," and author of "The Colonies, 1492-1750,"
"Historic Waterways," "Story of Wisconsin," etc.

_With the addition of a Memoir of the Author, and several Illustrative
Notes._

BY THE LATE

LYMAN COPELAND DRAPER

Author of "King's M