PIONEERS.
The
Squirrel Hunters of Ohio
or
Glimpses of Pioneer Life
by N. E. Jones, M. D.
Cincinnati.
⁂ THE ROBERT CLARKE Co ⁂
1898
Copyright, 1897, by
N. E. JONES.
PREFACE.
It required long trains of complex circumstances,and peculiar conditions for each, to giveto the world a Moses, an Alexander, a Napoleon,a Washington. Still greater were the pre-arrangementsand preparations for the development ofthe coming man of the Nineteenth Century, thathe might stand pre-eminently upon the summitof American manhood. The habitation selectedwas the most elaborate and lovely of all the giftsof nature: A domain dedicated to freedom forever,bountifully supplied with animals, vegetables,and minerals; with lakes, rivers, andrunning brooks, grassy lawns and fields of flowers;making a fitting place for the best blood leftof the American Revolution; descendants ofAnglo-Saxon kings; knights of Norman titlesand heroic deeds; supporters of William the Conqueror,whose ancestral names appear in theDoomsday Book, but more imperishably writtenin the law of descent and transmission. Withsuch the new environment brought forth an improved[iv]species, christened by a sovereign state,“The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses ofPioneer Life,” and to whom this volume is mostrespectfully dedicated.
N. E. Jones, M. D.
INTRODUCTION.
As an actor and interested witness of the marvelouschanges which have occurred in the settlementand civilization of the “North-west Territory,”the author places before the reader thisbook, entitled, “The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or,Glimpses of Pioneer Life.”
Others have faithfully recorded the wars, bloodshed,victories, defeats, dangers and deaths itcost to subjugate the savage and establish thecivilized. And it is as the gleaner follows thereapers and gathers in the wayward straws, thatthe author hopes to interest and entertain, bypicking up some of the fragments, that nothingmay be lost which contributed to the elevation,pleasure, subsistence and safety of the pi