Into the Valley of Death
Posted by Iola Parker on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Into the Valley of Death Horses, rearing in death, pitched their riders into a frenzied mass of red-coated soldiers, while Indians sprinted from tree to tree, leaping out to scalp the wounded and the dead. Even the dauntless Daniel Boone, then a young wagoner, cut his horses loose and fled for his life. George Washington, a volunteer lieutenant colonel, recounted years later that, “had I not been witness to the...read more
