Every child thus reared learns to hate an Indian because he always hears him spoken of as an enemy. From the cradle he listens continually to horrid tales of savage violence and becomes familiar with narratives of aboriginal cunning and ferocity. Every family can number some of its members or relatives among the victims of a midnight massacre or can tell of some acquaintance who has suffered a dreadful death at the stake. Traditions of horses stolen and cattle driven off and cabins burned are numberless told with great minuteness and listened to with intense interest. With persons thus reared hatred towards an Indian becomes a part of their nature and revenge an instinctive principle.

James Hall, The Romance of Western History, or, Sketches…, 1835.