What did Mr. Livingston say about Louisiana?  What did such people think we were like?  What would a traveller going west then find?  What is said of the country west of the Mississippi?  Who helped emigration to the west?  What did he find?  Tell about Robert Fulton as a boy.  Tell about his paddle-wheel scow.  What did Robert do for his mother?  Where did he go?  How long did he stay abroad?  Tell about his diving-boat.  What did he do with it in France?  What in England?  What did the English people offer him?  What did Fulton say?  Where did Fulton make and try his first steamboat?  Tell about the steamboat he made in New York.  How far up the Hudson did it go?  Tell about the first steamboat at the west.  What did the Indians call it?  What happened on the way down the Ohio River?  Tell about the steamboat on the Mississippi River.  What is said of steamboats at the west?  What about emigrants?  Where is Fulton buried?  Where is his monument?

GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
(1773-1841).

201.  War with the Indians; how the Indians felt about being forced to leave their homes; the story of the log.—­The year 1811, in which the first steamboat went west, a great battle was fought with the Indians.  The battle-ground was on the Tippecanoe[1] River, in what is now the state of Indiana.

[Illustration:  Map of Indiana and the Tippecanoe River.]

The Indians fought because they wanted to keep the west for themselves.  They felt as an old chief did, who had been forced to move many times by the white men.  One day a military officer came to his wigwam to tell him that he and his tribe must go still further west.  The chief said, General, let’s sit down on this log and talk it over.  So they both sat down.  After they had talked a short time, the chief said, Please move a little further that way; I haven’t room enough.  The officer moved along.  In a few minutes the chief asked him to move again, and he did so.  Presently the chief gave him a push and said, Do move further on, won’t you?  I can’t, said the general.  Why not? asked the chief.  Because I’ve got to the end of the log, replied the officer.  Well, said the Indian, now you see how it is with us.  You white men have kept pushing us on until you have pushed us clear to the end of our country, and yet you come now and say, Move on, move on.

[Illustration:  “MOVE ON.”]

[Footnote 1:  Tippecanoe (Tip-pe-ka-noo’):  see map in this paragraph.]

202.  What Tecumseh[2] and his brother, the “Prophet,"[3] tried to do.—­A famous Indian warrior named Tecumseh determined to band the different Indian tribes together, and drive out the white men from the west.

Tecumseh had a brother called the “Prophet,” who pretended he could tell what would happen in the future.  He said, The white traders come here, give the Indians whiskey, get them drunk, and then cheat them out of their lands.  Once we owned this whole country; now, if an Indian strips a little bark off of a tree to shelter him when it rains, a white man steps up, with a gun in his hand, and says, That’s my tree; let it alone, or I’ll shoot you.