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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: Soon several Delaware scouts appeared, escorting a large party of
frontiersmen.
These men turned out to be Captain Williamson's force, which had been out on
an expedition after a marauding tribe of Chippewas. This last named tribe had
recently harried the remote settlers, and committed depredations on the
outskirts of the white settlements eastward. The company was composed of men
who had served in the garrison at Fort Pitt, and hunters and backwoodsmen from
Yellow Creek and Fort Henry. The captain himself was a typical borderman,
rough and bluff, hardened by long years of border life, and, like most
pioneers, having no more use for an Indian than for a snake. He had led his
party after the marauders, and surprised and slaughtered nearly all of them.
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