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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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A member of this pioneering family in present-day central West Virginia supposedly wrote the fiddle tune "Shelvin' Rock" while sheltering from Indians.
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Where was the largest battle in Virginia during the French & Indian War?
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Construction of this fort marked the beginning of the city of Charleston?
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Of which town is Joseph Tomlinson considered the founder?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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From which direction did most Indian attacks occur during the frontier period?
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Pontiac started his rebellion against European-American settlements as a result of what event?
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The murder of this person's family sent him on a violent spree in which he killed Tegunteh, who was peacefully negotiating the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. Afterward, he became a fugitive from the law.
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