Excerpt from River and Forest Victor hardin found himself on a certain summer evening, about a hundred years ago, face to face with the most puzzling question of his life. His home was on the northern bank of the Ohio, his father having been one of the early pioneers in that section, which was now beginning to show the results of the great tide of immigration which set in after the decisive victory of General Wayne over the combined Indian tribes in 1794. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.