Item - A Border Heroine. An Incident of Pioneer History

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 36 no. 16 — page 8
Subjects / Tags:	Pioneers Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXVI, no. 16, February 28, 1881 (Issue)
Author:	Jennings, Jasper T.
Date:	February 28, 1881
First Sentence:	The pages of pioneer history furnish few examples of more individual heroism and fierce encounter with the savage red men than those relating to the early settlement of Kentucky.
Last Sentence:	The sole survivor of the savages finally succeeded in reaching his tribe, weak and emaciated, and the accounts he gave concerning the bravery of the woman who had slain his companions filled their untutored minds with superstition and terror, and ever afterward she was known by the Indians of that section as "The Long-Knife Squaw."