arapahoe's

Updated: May 7, 2025

Encouraged by the thought they were so near the captives, and maddened by the obstinacy with which the savages contended for the captives, they made a desperate charge, breaking through the savages, and falling upon the guard that surrounded the children, shot them, and unbinding the thongs around their hands, and placing Edward on the dead Arapahoe's horse, and Jane behind Edward; they then attempted to fly.

D. W. (David W.) Belisle - The American Family Robinson: or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West