Adventure Magazine Cover — page 162: what you’re looking at

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“152 "THE language used by the ranger in Chapter VIII, when he shoots and captures Captain Pean, is practically the same as used by the captor of Dieskau on his capture the year before. The in- cident of Jan the Rogue’s girl appearing in New York tap-rooms and tea-houses in male attire was suggested by the exploit of a young woman of that time, who created a sensation by a similar prank and by spending twenty pounds in one night. I cast back to Putnam to remark that his experi- ence in volunteering as a sentinel at the outpost near Fort Edward after the sentinels had mysteri- ously disappeared, also his killing a big Indian clothed in a bearskin, are facts. Alfred P. Put- nam’s “Sketch of Israel Putnam,” mentions Put- nam’s laughing at warriors who were burning him, and explains his lack of fear was constitutional. jt WeAS Colonel Jonathan Bagley who humor- ously assured General Winslow that every wheel would turn. that “human flesh and rum” could move, etc. Saratoga in 1745 was a small settlement of Dutch farmers and the only defense of Albany “towards Canada.” The fort was stockaded. It leaked so that the garrison of one sergeant and ten soldiers couldn’t keep-their powder dry. Neither the General Assembly nor Albany would pay for having it repaired. The garrison was withdrawn and the fort burned. On November twenty-eighth of that year, five hundred French and Indians raided the settlement, killing thirty and taking a hundred prisoners. This left Albany uncovered. The Long House ridiculed the English and said, ‘“You burned your own fort at Saratoga and ran.” The French and Indians were burning and killing in sight of Al- bany, and as the Iroquois had no love for the pro- vincials at any time, and never fora people they held in contempt for shirking a fight, it was with the ut- most difficulty that William Johnson won them back to neutrality. This is the episode that young Brant referred to. SOME thirty years before the time of my story there was much smuggling between Albany and - Montreal. The Mohawks held the Eastern Door _ and from them were drawn men who were willing to 3 HERE are some dozens of ways of showing that our public men are to be classed as‘ politicians, not statesmen. Generally they take up a problem only after it has become so acute that they can’t Adventure carry goods back and forth. These go-betweens wg’ LOOKING gradually became converted in so far as a pagan Indian can be converted to Christianity. It was charged that they peddled information concerning colonial affairs as well as goods. They were further charged with inciting wars between the Five Nations — and the southern Indians, thus eliminating the pos-_ sibility of the Long House becoming an ally against ~ the French: Strenuous efforts were made to break up thé smuggling game, it being believed that, once” it was done away with, the Mohawks would come — back home, the Frerich refusing to give them more presents after the usefulness ceased. From sucha | beginning did the Caughnawaga village of Mohawks and Oneidas spring. ee The fort at Oswego was a constant menace to the — French fort at Niagara. To counteract the influ ence of the Oswego fort the French placed ge posts at Presqu’ile (Erie, Pennsylvania), Fren Creek, and Venango. = AFTER Lord Howe was killed in the attack on Ticonderoga (Putnam being by his side all — through the fight) and after the incompetent Aber-— crombie had lost two thousand men, Colonel Brad- _ street captured Frontenac and the French navy on ~~ = Lake Ontario, thus sealing the fate of Fort Du- = quesne, : aes 1756 is the year when Sir William Johnson “took — the petticots off the Delawares and also the name of — women.” Of course this could only be done with — the consent of the Iroquois, who had imposed the ~ humiliating condition on the Delawares that they _ should call themselves “women,” and publicly ad- — mit they were unfit to carry arms. The Long House had refused to give aid in the Braddock campaign _ because of her dislike for the Virginians; the last re- sulting from Virginia’s claims to the Ohio lands, - which the Iroquois also claimed. The attitude of the Iroquois toward the provincials is not overdrawn in my story. Three hundred offered to follow Johnson — because of their love for him. The Iroquois as a confederacy desired to stand one side and watch — France and England exhaust each other in battles = what the Iroquois believed to be their own| — S. a AHEAD FOR 3 DEMOCRACY avoid taking it up—a “hand to mouth” system of guiding and controlling public affairs. Think of all their arguments about food production, prices, — regulation, etc. How far ahead do they look, — CORNICE OOO KS