Nick of the woods

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Nick of the Woods concerns the settlement of Kentucky in the 1780s.
Looking back at that period from a distance of nearly sixty years, Dr.
Bird depicts early settlers in conflict with Native Americans. "Nick,"
the mysteriously devilish "Jibbenainosay"--that is, the Philadelphia
Quaker Nathan Slaughter turned "Injun" killer--is Bird's reply to
Cooper. Cooper saw Native Americans as "noble savages."