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December 29, 2019December 30, 2019 brsloan Personal Accounts

1838 Account of A Run-In With A Bandit

This gripping account of a tense encounter in the wilderness of Clinton County is given in Chapter 13 of Recollections of the early settlement of the Wabash Valley by Sanford C. Cox, published in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1860. It takes up four of the five-and-a-half pages devoted to Clinton County. The only editing I have … Continue reading 1838 Account of A Run-In With A Bandit

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