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Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y, antedates the historyof the State of Indiana by many years andits beginning is almost contemporaneouswith the French settlement of old \incennes,so charmingly narrated by that famousIndiana author, Maurice Thompson. Gen-eral George Rogers Clark, the intrepid,courageous patriot of those early days, inhis memoirs of his historical expedition toKaskaskia and Mncennes, mentions thewonderful saline deposit of these springsas being the resort for deer and buffalo. Mncennes had come to the springs to drinkthe waters and hunt for the large gamewith which the surrounding country thenabounded. As the maiden came down thehillside from the thickly tangled wood onher way to bathe her face in and arrangeher jet black hair while looking into therippling, bubbling waters of old Pluto, thesharp report of the hunters ritle rang outand Undines spirit sought rest on thebosoms of her ancestors in the HappyHunting Ground. The first habitation erected by a whiteman was built by .Joel Charles, a brave and
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miiNCH LICK IN IT who came in great herds from the foreststo lick of the salty waters. It is fromthis fact and the early French settlementthat the name French Lick is supposedto be derived. .\fter the departure of the French, whowere evidently driven away by bands ofhostile Indians, John Pruett, a man of rov-ing disposition, settled here, but neveracquired any property. In those earlydays, powder and ball were the currencyof the time, and it is said of Pruett that heat one time received a payment in powderfrom a frontiersman who had lost his way inthe dense forest and wandered to his cabin. A sad legend of these early days, saidto have occurred in the latter part of theeighteenth century, is that of Undine, abeautiful Indian maiden of the Shawneetribe. Some Frenchmen from the fort at daring frontiersman, in the year 1811. Hiscabin stood just across the road from themagnificent new hotel, on the site now occu-pied by the livery barn. In 1816, shortly before the admissionof Indiana as a

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