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Excerpt from ManchHe was a remarkable-lookin g personage, this Captain Brown, notwithstanding his very common name. In any crowd the eye would have singled him out as beyond the ordinary. Here, at Bear's Bend, he was looked upon as a kind of chief, by virtue of the inherent right to rule expressed in his eye and voice. As for his antecedents, the settlers knew nothing an d cared but little. All they knew was that he appeared among them suddenly at the close of an autumn day, riding a blooded but jaded horse, and carrying as his only baggage a female child upon the pommel of his saddle and a rifle across his shoulder. The possession of the child won for him the sympathy of the women, and his superior handling of the gun secured the respectful consideration of the men. Indeed, so skilled did he show himself in the use of this trusty friend of the backwoodsman, and so cool and keen in the hunt, that he was chosen leader in an afiray with the Indians that took place shortly after his settling at Bear's Bend.The dignified reserve of his manner, and his reputa tion for high larning, as well as for un¿inching integ rity, caused him to be invested with the authority of a kind of judge, and he was appealed to to settle all disputes and give judgment on all important matters occurring in the community. On only one point did he show weak ness - his treatment of his daughter. He at the same time indulged and neglected her, until it was no mar vel that she grew up warm-hearted, passionately fond of her father, but impulsive and willful. But utterly as he neglected the improvement of her mind, he seemed to build hopes of some kind upon the girl, and often spoke of sending her back to the States to be educated, after a while, seeming strangely unconscious of the fact that she was fast growing up, and was no longer a little child, and it was therefore a most unlooked-for shock to him when the girl, in her fifteenth year, married into a family that was contemned and looked down upon in the settle ment. Border society is by no means nice or difficult of access, but when it chooses to ostracize it does so more effectually and terribly than can be done by the leaders of the haut month.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.