"Where I first knew the nature of care:" Women and violence on the late 18th century frontier

From first paragraph: During the revolutionary war and for some years afterwards the inhabitants of the backcountry settlements in the Ohio Valley were repeatedly the targets of raids by Indians. Accounts of these attacks occasionally appeared in eastern newspapers, detailing the brutality of the "savages" and the effects of their actions on the "defenseless" white women and children caught up in these incidents.