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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
6
Vivid scene in a frontier camp shows a Prophet, Girty, and a girl amid chants and grim amulets. A male figure longs to claim a promised reward while drums surge, hinting at looming conflict and personal peril in the Tippecanoe setting.
Amid heavy fighting at a frontier camp, Captain Daviess and Kentuckians hold ground as General Harrison orders steadfast defense. David and Spier Spencer’s men tend the wounded, while Major Daviess is mortally wounded and David aids his body to the wagons.
In a brutal retreat David Beene witnesses massacre as Indian captors recount a death. Soldiers crush a booster, villagers burn, and the wounded suffer aboard rickety carts. Amid delirium cries echo through the convoy while mournful drums of war fade with the November rain.
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