Lewis Wetzel: Warfare Tactics on the Frontier by George Carrol

[Gaze]

I could find nowhere else to post this.

Although several of you know George Carrol, I could find no reference to this article. It focuses on Lewis Wetzel but mentions other famous border ruffians.
http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh50-5.html

I find it fascinating, as I live at Little Levels in the Greenbrier River Valley, which had a long and bloody history. Those of you that have been though here have seen the old white signs marking the various Indian massacres, as well as the Civil War battles.

I was really looking for a picture of Wetzel’s long gun. About eight years ago I read everything I could find on Wetzel. One source had a reference to a museum here in West Virginia possessing the longarm that a friend of Wetzel handed him when they brokeWetzeln out of jail.

I can’t find any reference to its existence.

 

[BillinOregon]

Wow, Gabby, that's some grisly history there!

 

[Ron LaClair]

A very interesting read...thanks for posting it

 

[USMA65]

Incredible story of a man who obviously was not bound by any code other than that of a killer. I particularly appreciated the reference to Vietnam and remembering our heritage. Had that idea of confining ourselves to tactics developed a 150 years before, we would have been out years earlier with much less loss of American lives.