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| Two Feathers |
Posted - November 22 2003 : 7:45:42 PM
I recently read "Life of Lewis Wetzel" by Cecil Hartley and found it quite interesting as it is a facsmile copy of the first edition first published in1860. |
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| Two Feathers |
Posted - November 27 2003 : 1:22:54 PM
The Virginia Ranger and Life of Lewis Wetzel are both the same book. |
| Hawkeye_Joe |
Posted - November 27 2003 : 11:15:27 AM
Here is one novel, though I've not read it.
Lewis Wetzel - The Virginia Ranger by Cecil B. Hartley
http://www.lordnelsons.com/bookstore/82.htm
A thought provoking article on Wetzel: "Lewis Wetzel: Frontier Hero or Serial Killer?"
LEWIS WETZEL, DARK HERO OF THE OHIO
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/spring97/wetzel.html
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| Kurt |
Posted - November 24 2003 : 8:05:04 PM
Grey definitely wrote histrionic romances (would you believe hysterical? no, make that "historical" romances), not history books. Just as our beloved Cooper mislabeled Baker's Falls, Grey can be fast and loose with the facts. I was enjoying the description of place and time, of a secret cave (I think I have seen reference to a Wetzel's Cave state park) and the kinds of foods he might have stored there, being on the trail of an enemy, tricks to fool the enemy into giving you a good shot, the idea of hunting buffalo. I seriously doubt Wetzel had anything to do with a pair of twins, one a missionary and one a budding boarderman. From my limited reading I seriously doubt Wetzel would have passed on a chance to kill an indian, Christian or not. I do admit it is entertainment, the TV of Grey's time.
Did Wetzel write anything or what are the factual books on the subject?
yr. obt. svt.
Kurt |
| Two Kettles |
Posted - November 23 2003 : 7:32:31 PM
Isn't "Sprit of the Border" the one where Grey claims the Gnaudatten massacre was committed by Girty and a bunch of Shawnees or Delawares, instead of by the Paxton Boys? I just couldn't bring myself to read anything else by him after I read that.
Two Kettles |
| Kurt |
Posted - November 23 2003 : 07:37:33 AM
Two of the Zane Grey novels which feature Lewis Wetzel are available from Project Gutenberg (www.ibiblio.org.gutenberg)
One is "Betty Zane" which tells the story of an ancestor of Grey's who carried gunpower between a blockhouse and Fort Henry. Wetzel is pivotal to the story. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext98/bzane10.txt
The second is "The Spirit of the Border" in which Wetzel is the main character and his way of life is explored. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext98/sprtb10.txt
The third is "The Last Trail" in which Wetzel and Jonathan Zane pursue a band of renagades through the wilderness to save a kidnapped woman. This book and the first two are available as paperbacks.
Kurt |
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