#10 of 462 LISTENER FAVS THE STORY OF BRYAN'S STATION (PT 1) : THE INDIAN ATTACK
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome back to 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories and Mysteries Podcast. This is your host, John Hagadorn. |
| 0:39.0 | The real story of the Taming of the American frontier from New England to California is often hidden these days |
| 0:45.6 | while much as being taught and written about the plight of America's indigenous peoples and the shame of slavery. |
| 0:51.7 | Students of history are much more likely to know about the |
| 0:53.9 | Trail of Tears or the Battle of Wounded Knee and the Massacre of Innocent Indians |
| 0:58.3 | than they are to know the details of the Battle of Saratoga, where the hundreds of stories of American |
| 1:03.6 | Frontiersmen and their families trying to survive in a very hostile |
| 1:06.9 | wilderness. A wilderness often made more hostile by British and French armies |
| 1:11.6 | intent upon taking the land for their own and using Indians to do the dirty work which they were only too glad to do for guns, weapons, captives to torture and scalp and whiskey. |
| 1:21.0 | White British sympathizers called loyalists did it for a chance |
| 1:25.4 | at looting their colonial rebel neighbors and the desire to come out on what |
| 1:29.1 | they felt was the winning side during the bloody American Revolution which lasted eight years in the more populated areas and longer in the wilderness. |
| 1:37.0 | Indians did it because war was all they knew. |
| 1:40.0 | War made men out of boys, and was their culture and until the white man came |
| 1:44.6 | were with each other was constant. They both the Indians and the British and French were to find their match in the frontiersmen who came to build farms and towns in the wilderness, |
| 1:55.0 | many of them Scots-Irish, others mostly English at first until the floodgates opened to Europeans. |
| 2:01.0 | These men and their families were independent thinkers, frontiersmen and natural-born fighters. |
| 2:07.0 | None of them wanted a king and none wanted to lose their scalps. |
| 2:11.0 | All they wanted was land to farm on and to raise families. |
| 2:15.0 | Sadly, often the only things left standing in America's memory of these frontier |
| 2:19.8 | settlers are the highway markers and stone memorials that have been placed at or near the sites of past battles and settlements to honor the brave who came and settled to wild regions and fought to survive and raise their families. |
| 2:32.0 | Add to that names of towns and creeks and places that still bear those pioneer |
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