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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
among several tribes, the most powerful of which were the Creeks and Cherokees. The latter, which had furnished a large contingent to the Confederate armies of Arkansas, had to some extent experienced the influence of civilization; but this very influence had enfeebled it. Several Cherokee villages, surrounded by cultivated lands, rose in the rich prairie extending from the Pea Ridge Mountains to the borders of the Neosho, and the principal chief of the tribe, who had assumed the name of John Ross, resided in a beautiful villa at Park Hill, on the road to Fayetteville. The capital of the tribe, a small village called Tah-le-Quah, although it had been but a few years in existence, was already suffering from the effects of this premature decay, which, like an incurable decline, everywhere attacks the products of an artificial civilization, and these redskins, having acquired sedentary habits, were no longer able to defend themselves against their brethren who had remained in their no