![]() ![]() Drimmer ''added one or more of the deliberate massacres of Indians by the whites'' to that book. Ewers observed, ''The gruesome picture of man's inhumanity to man on the Indian frontier would have been portrayed more fairly'' had Mr. William Crawford by the Shawnees in 1782, during which the redskins threw the Colonel's bloody scalp in Knight's face, shouting, 'That is your captain.' ''īut Mr. John Knight's description of the slow burning to death at the stake of George Washington's friend Col. Ewers, an ethnologist, wrote: ''American literature may contain no more shocking passage than Dr. Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, John C. ![]() Drimmer was the editor of the book ''Scalps and Tomahawks: Narratives of Indian Captivity'' (1961). Frederick Drimmer, who wrote and edited books that explored both the painful and the macabre, died on Dec. ![]()
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