In 1763, the Paxton Rangers are formed. They are meant to protect their hometown from marauding Native Americans, but after returning from upstate some of them began to take matters into their own hands and are condemned by none other than Benjamin Franklin.
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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
Sources
Brubaker, Jack. Massacre of the Conestogas. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010.
Franklin, Benjamin. A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown, with some Observations on the same. Philadelphia: Anthony Armbruster, 1764.
Parkman, Francis. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1870.
Shirk, Willis J. “Wright's Ferry: A Glimpse Into the Susquehanna Backcountry.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 120: 1 / 2 (January/April 1996).
Sipe, C. Hale. The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA: The Telegraph Press, 1929.
Stainton, Leslie. Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.
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92 - Death Most Mysterious, Part One
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90 - The Red Man of the Tuileries
89 - William Etlinger
88 - The Tichborne Claimant
87 - The Green Bicycle Mystery
86 - The Wheels of Orffyreus
85 - Don't Call It Murder, Call It A Job
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83 - The Periphery of the Canon
82 - The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
81 - The Demon of the Belfry
80 - The Smallest of the Small
79 - Helen Eiker
78 - The Phantom of O'Donnell Heights
77 - The Death of Ocey Snead
76 - The Devil's Footprints
75 - Earle Leonard Nelson, Part Three
74 - Earle Leonard Nelson, Part Two
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