Then followed a tragedy.

Some Indian friends of the imprisoned chiefs attacked the fort, and the commander, a popular young officer, was treacherously killed during a parley.

The infuriated frontiersmen within the fort fell upon the hostages and slew them all--twenty-six chiefs--and the Indian war was on.
If all were to be told of the struggle which followed in the Back Country, the story could not be contained in this book.

Many brave and resourceful men went out against the savages.

We can afford only a passing glance at one of them.