| Show fifty famous frontiersmen by ELMO SCOTT WATSON A modern knight errant WHEN HEN the city of prescott ariz decided to erect a memorial to the rough rider who went from arizona to cuba in ID the spanish american wa war r there was more than one reason why that monument should be ao an equestrian statue of bucky oneill for in the words of one historian oneill was the most many sided man arizona has ever produced A ight errant of the nineteenth century he was always ready to couch cotich a lance for the weak and the distressed A childs appeal a womans comans tears disarmed him at once yet when the occasion came he could be hard and cold as chilled steel ON ONell eills ls was a fighting heritage for his father was a captain in the celebrated irish brigade from pennsylvania during the civil war after graduation from college in im bucky went to phoenix ariz and started in newspaper work then he practiced Is law got into politics and eventually became sheriff of yavapai county and in that office repeatedly proved the cold chilled steel quality of his courage in dealing with the various types of bad men who infested the territory that territory wanted to become a state so when the spanish american war broke out bucky was one of those who thought that eliat arizona might win statehood if her roen men proved themselves worthy in battle who gamble for a start star he said as he signed up to fight find and he meant another star in the las that of arizona rie ile was one of the first it if not the first volunteer mustered into service later he became a captain in the arizona troop of Roosevel ts rough riders at las guasimas Gu asimas Ol oneill Neill stood looking down at the body of a dead rough rider that had been found by the tures before his comrades could get to him colonel it whitman who sa says a of the vultures that they pluck the eyes of princes and tear the flesh of kins kings he asked Roos roosevelt erelt who writes of the incident 1 I answered that I 1 could not place the quotation just a week afterward we were shielding his own body from these birds that came on the banks of the san juan river during the advance against santiago bucky was strolling up and down in front of his men coolly smoking a cigarette and apparently oblivious of 0 the spanish bullets singing around him A sergeant begged him to lie ile down lest he be hit with a laugh oneill replied sergeant the spanish bullet made that will kill me the next moment a bullet did strike him and in the words of roosevelt even before he fell his wild and gallant soul had gone out into the darkness a a 4 the five fighting zanes HEN it came time tor for old william WHEN allam zane to die he be could take pride in the fact that he had given to frontier history live five stalwart sons who would make the name of zane forever famous there they were col ebenezer zane founder in 1770 of the settlement which was tp to become the present wheeling W va a soldier in lord Dun mores war of 1774 builder and commander of fort henry the scene of two famous indian sieges in 1777 and 1782 1732 an early set aler ln ohio on the present site of zanesville blazer in 1798 1700 of zanes trace which followed the route of 0 an old indian trail from wheeling to limestone opposite maysville ky and over which poured a flood of settlers into ohio and Ken kentucky bicky a colonel of militia and a leader of men down to the day of his death in isia isaac zane captured by the wyan dots at the age of nine a white indian for ten years yeara as the adopted son of chief tache then returning to his own people a member of the virginia house of burgesses back again to to become the husband of myeerah the white crane daughter of chief tache and to take her with him into the ohio country to establish the settlement which now Is 18 Za nesfield and there to live her until his death to in 1816 silas zane one of the first settlers near wheeling a captain of virginia troops in the continental army while the indians were besieging his brothers fort in 1777 but present there during the siege of 1782 a trader in the indian country after the revolution and about 1785 a victim to indian treachery on the scioto river jonathan zane captured at the age of two by the same indians indiana ajio ho carried off his brother isaac he lived with them only a short ume time before being returned to his own people a stal stalwart fighter during the stirring events around fort henry a pioneer into ohio and the partner of his brother la in marking zanes trace andrew zane an early settler at wheeling hero of a famous exploit dur during ng the siege of 1777 when he escaped from the indians by jumping jum over a 70 toot foot din cliff only to be kit killed ping ed by them a short time later the fighting Zari zanes esI only five of them not nol for there was another a sister bister worthy of her brothers 13 etty zane the girl whose swift feet brought the much needed powder from zanes cabin to the hard pressed defenders of fort henry during the siege of 1782 1781 and whose brave denance defiance of eath death that day did much to make the name of zane forever famous 1133 1933 newspaper Nw itier union |
