Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1887 edition. Estratto: ...of his friend Elholm failed to arouse him. He gave no orders, suggested no plan, made no preparation for either attack or defense. All through the night he sat there, absorbed in his own reflections. What those reflections were it is not difficult to conjecture, for we know the man and his selfsacrificing history. Did he not think of his many years of unselfish devotion to his country, of the wealth he had poured out like water in its service, of the many weary marches he had made, the battles he had fought, the deadly perils he had encountered, to give it peace and freedom? And all for what? To be driven forth from the soil he had conquered, and the peace he had won, a penniless man and an outlaw! And then, perhaps, other thoughts came to him. Might he not yet retrieve his fortunes? This man Maxwell, who was coming against him, would in his hands be but as a child in the grasp of a giant. Having crushed him, might he not sound the border slogan, rally the whole West to his side, and in one day dismember the country which had so ungratefully requited his unselfish fidelity? Doubtless he might have done so; and perhaps such thoughts came to him, for a tempting devil is ever at our ears in our hours of extremest trial. But this devil did not know John Sevier. He might be an outlaw; he might be a penniless wanderer in the land he loved; and even worse might yet befall him, for there was no limit to the malice of his enemies; but through it all he would stand erect and say, as Jackson said at a later period, "I will die in the last ditch before I will see this Union disunited!" Possibly these were his thoughts while he sat there, by his smoldering camp-fire, till far...