The Last Empty Places by Peter Stark

Author:Peter Stark [Stark, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-345-52190-3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

* The British used remarkably innovative ways to cheat the Indians out of their lands. For instance, there was the bitter “Walking Purchase” of 1737. While accounts differ in exact details, a document, possibly forged, appeared in the 1730s purporting that years earlier the Indians had agreed with the Penn family to sell a tract of land that could be paced off in “a day and half’s walk.” Colonial authorities recruited the three fastest white “runners” they could find, cleared a path to speed their way through the forest, and set them off sprinting for a day and a half. Two of them collapsed from exhaustion; the other managed to cover fifty-five miles. And so the boundary was drawn, giving two thirds of a million acres of Indian lands to the Penns and displacing the Delaware tribe from eastern Pennsylvania.

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