RUNNING FOX


The next instant his own arrow dropped his enemy to the ground.


RUNNING FOX

BY

ELMER RUSSELL GREGOR

AUTHOR OF “WHITE OTTER,” ETC. ETC.

FRONTISPIECE BY

D. C. HUTCHISON

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

NEW YORK—LONDON

1918


Copyright, 1918, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I beg to gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to Schoolcraft’s works on the Eastern Indians, and to Morgan’s “League of the Iroquois” for much valuable information about the old-time Lenape and Iroquois Indians, and to the Lenape-English Dictionary edited by Daniel G. Brinton, and published by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, for many ancient Lenape words.

Elmer Russell Gregor.


Table of Contents

[I—A LONELY VIGIL]

[II—INTO THE PERILOUS NORTH]

[III—A THRILLING ADVENTURE]

[IV—IN THE GRIP OF THE RAPIDS]

[V—WOLVES]

[VI—A PROWLER IN THE DARK]

[VII—THE MYSTERIOUS CANOE]

[VIII—A NARROW ESCAPE]

[IX—FORCED INTO HIDING]

[X—SPOTTED DEER DISAPPEARS]

[XI—A SKIRMISH WITH THE SHAWNEES]

[XII—SMOKE]

[XIII—SURPRISED]

[XIV—ANXIOUS DAYS]

[XV—A BATTLE WITH THE CHIPPEWAS]

[XVI—THE ESCAPE]

[XVII—PURSUED BY THE ENEMY]

[XVIII—THE IROQUOIS BLUNDER INTO A TRAP]

[XIX—THE ATTACK ON THE DELAWARE CAMP]

[XX—VICTORY]


RUNNING FOX