Excerpt from Wilderness Road: A Romance of St. Clair's Defeat and Wayne's Victory The affair of Harmar was nothing, and these tribes are nothing, he said. St. Clair Will brush them out of the way. He is coming with an army, you know, and we shall concern ourselves no further about sav ages. I Shook my head, but I did not speak, knowing how vain my words would be; and they, turning back to the map, began to divide anew the lands which another race held. I saw the same look upon the faces of them all Jasper, Mr. Carew, the large man Curry, and the slim faced lawyer Knowlton. It was a fine map, in beautiful blues and reds and yellows, but it seems to me that any map of the West should be all red. We had to colour it thus to buy it. I watched them a little as they parcelled so easily among themselves the country that others would have to water with their blood, and then I felt the eyes of Rose Carew upon me. You think they are making the division too soon, she said, knowing that the others, their souls gripped by earth-hunger, would not hear. They have bought, from those who can not sell, something which they can not take, I replied. 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.