Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net FOUR AMERICAN INDIANS KING PHILIP TECUMSEH PONTIAC OSCEOLA A BOOK FOR YOUNG AMERICANS BY EDSON L. WHITNEY and FRANCES M. PERRY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY Copyright, 1904, by EDSON L. WHITNEY and FRANCES M. PERRY Four Am. Ind. CONTENTS THE STORY OF KING PHILIP CHAPTER PAGE I. PHILIP'S PEOPLE 9 II. PHILIP'S CHILDHOOD HOME 12 III. MASSASOIT AND HIS TWO SONS 15 IV. PHILIP HEARS OF THE ENGLISH 19 V. PHILIP MEETS THE ENGLISH 23 VI. PHILIP'S EDUCATION 26 VII. PHILIP'S DAILY LIFE 30 VIII. PHILIP'S RELATIONS WITH THE ENGLISH 34 IX. PHILIP BECOMES GRAND SACHEM 37 X. PHILIP'S TROUBLES WITH THE WHITES 39 XI. PHILIP AND THE INDIAN COUNCILS 42 XII. KING PHILIP'S WAR 45 XIII. THE LAST DAYS OF PHILIP 48 THE STORY OF PONTIAC CHAPTER PAGE I. THE MEETING OF PONTIAC AND THE ENGLISH 53 II. PONTIAC'S CHILDHOOD 59 III. PONTIAC'S EDUCATION 62 IV. THE CHIEF 66 V. THE PLOT 70 VI. THE SEVENTH OF MAY 74 VII. HOSTILITIES BEGUN 79 VIII. THE TWO LEADERS 84 IX. THE SIEGE OF DETROIT 89 X. IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS 95 XI. THE END OF THE SIEGE 101 XII. ALL ALONG THE FRONTIER 104 XIII. THE LAST OF PONTIAC 110 THE STORY OF TECUMSEH CHAPTER PAGE I. EARLY YEARS 117 II. YOUTH 121 III. ADVENTURES OF THE YOUNG BRAVE 125 IV. TECUMSEH DISSATISFIED 128