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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: pushed farther and farther into the wilderness. The Indians, who at first
sought only to save their farms and their stock, now fought for revenges That
is why every ambitious pioneer who went out upon those borders carried his
life in his hands: why there was always the danger of being shot or tomahawked
from behind every tree; why wife and children were constantly in fear of the
terrible enemy.
To creep unawares upon a foe and strike him in the dark was Indian warfare; to
an Indian it was not dishonorable; it was not cowardly. He was taught to hide
in the long grass like a snake, to shoot from coverts, to worm his way
stealthily through the dense woods and to ambush the paleface's trail.
Horrible cruelties, such as torturing white prisoners and burning them at the
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