Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks Visit us online at www1stWorldLibraryORG The author does not intend to apologize for what many readers may call the quotbrutalityquot of the story but rather to explain that its wild spirit is true to the life of the Western border as it was known only a little more than one hundred years ago The writer is the fortunate possessor of historical material of undoubted truth and interest It is the longlost journal of Colonel Ebenezer Zane one of the most prominent of the hunterpioneer who labored in the settlement of the Western country The story of that tragic period deserves a higher place in historical literature than it has thus far been given and this unquestionably because of a lack of authentic data regarding the conquering of the wilderness Considering how many years the pioneers struggled on the border of this country the history of their efforts is meager and obscure
