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" The most noteworthy contribution that has been made to the early history of southern Indiana." -Indiana Magazine of History, 1908"Colonel Cockrum is the senior member of one of the most distinguished pioneer families of the State." - Indiana Magazine of History, 1915Col. Cockrum, who spent his life living on the old family homestead in Indiana, patiently gathered material from private sources for fifty years or more, and his harvest, published in his 1907 book " Pioneer History of Indiana" is most interesting. This pioneer history covers their manners and customs, the dangers they encountered from the Indians, the hunting for game and the many terrible encounters with savage beasts. There are narrations of adventure with the Indians, and pictures of life and manners among the very earliest pioneers, that are among the best accounts of this kind that we have. There are, too, not a few documents that are a real addition including letters of instruction from Governor William Henry Harrison to William Hargrave, a captain of rangers, in 1807. Those letters are decidedly informative. In the first place, the fact that there was a ranger service guarding our frontier from Vincennes to Lawrenceburg as early as 1807, is one of which none of our historians seem heretofore to have been aware. In introducing his book Cockrum writes: "In this volume, many of the early happenings that occurred during the settling of Indiana are given for the first time and if this opportunity were not improved, a large amount of interesting history of our state would be lost.…For fifty years the data for this volume has been collecting: From personal acquaintance with the pioneers, from a history of incidents transmitted from parents to children and from tradition that is accepted as reliable."The book includes many true tales of encounters of the ferocious wild beast of the wilderness, including a run-in with a panther by a surveying party:" The panther, regaining her feet, rushed at Tate, who was trying to shoot, but found that the priming had fallen out of the pan of his flint lock gun when he knocked the panther down. As she came at him he thrust the muzzle of the gun into her mouth and thus held her at bay for a little while. She tore the gun out of her mouth with her claws and again rushed at Tate…."Also included is the interesting account of the "Piasa" a winged creature that preyed on local Indian tribes and resided in a cave located in a river bluff.About the author: William Monroe Cockrum (1837-1924) was the senior member of one of the most distinguished pioneer families of the State. He had spent his life up to the publication of his book on the old Indiana homestead. He and his father have had a true appreciation of historic records, as a consequence of which he was in possession of a large amount of data concerning the early history of the southwest corner of the State. Contents: I. FRENCH COLONIZATION IN INDIANA II. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND THE ENGLISH III. THE TERRITORY CAPTURED BY GENERAL CLARK IV. The Northwest Territory Organized V. Prisoners Recaptured From The Indians VI. Organization Of Indiana Territory VII. Settlement Of Southern Indiana VIII. The Pioneer IX. Land Claims And Territorial Affairs X. The Battle Of Tippecanoe XI. INDIANA'S TRIBUTE TO KENTUCKY. XII.FURTHER HISTORY OF TECUMSEH AND THE PROPHET. XIII. PIONEER INDUSTRIES. XIV. AMUSEMENTS AND SPORTS OF THE EARLY PIONEERS. XV. INDIANA DURING THE WAR OF 1812. XVI. INDIANA BECOMES A STATE XIX. The Battle Of Tippecanoe XX. FLAT-BOATING. XXI. General Joseph Lane XXII. The State Bank XXIII. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. XXIV. PENAL, BENEVOLENT AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. XXV. THE MEXICAN WAR. XXVI. Indian Barbarity And The Prodigal's Return XXVII. Two Bear Cubs XXVIII. Kidnapping Free Negroes XXIX. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD XXX. INDIAN RELIGION XXXI. THE MOUND BUILDERS

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Title: Pioneer History of Indiana: Including Stories, Incidents, and Customs of the Early Settlers (1907)
Author : William Monroe Cockrum
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