Simon Girty

Author : Edward Butts
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554889501

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Simon Girty by Edward Butts Pdf

During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty’s name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential in convincing the tribes to fight for the British. The Americans declared Girty an outlaw. In U.S. history books he is a villain even worse than Benedict Arnold. Yet in Canada, Girty is regarded as a Loyalist hero, and a historic plaque marks the site of his homestead on the Ontario side of the Detroit River. In Native history, Girty stands out as one of the few white men who championed their cause against American expansion. But was he truly the "White Savage" of legend, or a hero whose story was twisted by his foes?

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813180397

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Girty by Richard Taylor Pdf

Along with Benedict Arnold, Simon Girty was one of the most hated men in early America. The son of an Irish immigrant, he was raised on the western Pennsylvania frontier but was captured by the Senecas as a teenager and lived among them for several years. This able frontiersman might be seen today as a defender of Native Americans, but in his own time he was branded as a traitor for siding with First Nations and the British during the Revolutionary War. He fought fiercely against Continental Army forces in the Ohio River Valley and was victorious in the bloody Battle of Blue Licks. In this classic work, Richard Taylor artfully assembles a collage of passages from diaries, travel accounts, and biographies to tell part of the notorious villain's story. Taylor uses the voice of Girty himself to unfold the rest of the narrative through a series of interior monologues, which take the form of both prose and poetry. Moments of torture and horrifying bloodshed stand starkly against passages celebrating beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Throughout, Taylor challenges perceptions of the man and the frontier, as well as notions of white settler innocence. Simon Girty's bloody exploits and legend made him hated and feared in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, but many who knew him respected him for his convictions, principles, and bravery. This evocative work brings to life a complex figure who must permanently dwell in the borderland between myth and fact, one foot in each domain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Michigan
ISBN : IND:32000003300946

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Pioneer Collections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allen W. Eckert
Publisher : Jesse Stuart Foundation
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931672818

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The Frontiersmen by Allen W. Eckert Pdf

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan W. Eckert's dramatic history. Against the background of such names as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has recreated the life of one of America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in opening the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his eighteenth birthday, Kenton had already won frontier renown as woodsman, fighter and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the ideal prototype of the frontier hero. Yet there is another story to The Frontiersmen. It is equally the story of one of history's greatest leaders, whose misfortune was to be born to a doomed cause and a dying race. Tecumseh, the brilliant Shawnee chief, welded together by the sheer force of his intellect and charisma an incredible Indian confederacy that came desperately close to breaking the thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the story of his life, in Allan Eckert's hands, reveals most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the American Indian. No less importantly, The Frontiersmen is the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement, and it is Eckert's particular grace to be able to evoke life and meaning from the raw facts of this story. In The Frontiersmen not only do we care about our long-forgotten fathers, we live again with them.

Author : Consul Willshire Butterfield
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 935421844X

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History Of The Girtys by Consul Willshire Butterfield Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Charles McKnight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006098018

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Simon Girty by Charles McKnight Pdf

Author : Roy M. Boatman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89085928208

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Simon Girty, the Man and the Image by Roy M. Boatman Pdf

Author : Thomas Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948986507

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Simon Girty by Thomas Boyd Pdf

Perhaps few other frontiersmen of the early Revolutionary period were as complicated as the notorious Simon Girty. A native of Pennsylvania, Girty spent years of his childhood as a captive of the Seneca, eventually assimilating into its culture. During Lord Dunmore's War, Girty fought alongside Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone as a spy and scout for the British forces. Although initially supporting the Americans in the Revolution, Girty switched sides in 1778 and fought the remainder of the war against the colonials. After the war, Girty continued to fight against American encroachment on native territories. He settled in Canada and died there in 1818. His unusual life reflected the decades during which the "middle ground" was built and contested by native Americans and the British and French colonial empires.

Author : Thomas Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UCAL:$B542916

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Simon Girty, the White Savage by Thomas Boyd Pdf

Author : Edwin L. Sabin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791041847907

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Boy's Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. Sabin Pdf

Author : Carl E. Feather
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : 9780821412299

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Mountain People in a Flat Land by Carl E. Feather Pdf

In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival. But the cost of a bus ticket was more than a week's wages in a lumber camp, and the mountaineer paid dearly in loss of kin, culture, homeplace, and freedom. Numerous scholarly works have addressed this migration that brought more than one million mountaineers to Ohio alone. But Mountain People in a Flat Land is the first popular history of Appalachian migration to one community -- Ashtabula County, an industrial center in the fabled "best location in the nation." These migrants share their stories of life in Appalachia before coming north. There are tales of making moonshine, colorful family members, home remedies harvested from the wild, and life in coal company towns and lumber camps. The mountaineers explain why, despite the beauty of the mountains and the deep kinship roots, they had to leave Appalachia. Stories of their hardships, cultural clashes, assimilation, and ultimate successes in the flatland provide a moving look at an often stereotyped people.

Author : Madeline Hilborn Malott
Publisher : Kingsville, Ont. : M.H. Malott
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : WISC:89062915749

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Simon, Peter and Polly, 1775-1825 by Madeline Hilborn Malott Pdf

The book consists of an imaginative recreation of the lives of Simon Girty, as well as Peter and Polly Malott, with extensive genealogical information.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Michigan
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012690830

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Historical Collections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : YALE:39002040342587

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Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Clay Alder
Publisher : The University of Akron Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1884836984

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A History of Jonathan Alder by Henry Clay Alder Pdf

In the late 1830s or early 1840s, probably at the insistence of his family and friends, Alder composed his memoirs, in which he recounted his life with the Ohio Indians and his experiences as one of the area's earliest pioneers."--Jacket.