Rendezvous: A secret meeting.
Sanctioned: Officially approved.
Scalping: The act of removing the top portion of someone’s hair and scalp to save as a battle trophy.
Scenario: A sequence of events.
Siege: To surround and shut off a location for a prolonged period of time in order to take control of it.
Soliloquy: A speech in which the speaker seems to be talking to himself or an unseen audience.
Spigot: Faucet.
Spile: A spigot used to tap maple trees that allows the sap to flow from the tree into a collection pail.
Stealthy: Quiet and sneaky.
Sweat equity: The value of a job resulting from the hard work put into it.
Tarred and feathered: A form of punishment in which a person is smeared with hot tar and covered with feathers.
Tedious: Long and boring.
Tenuous: Slight or insubstantial.
Treason: Action taken against one’s own country.
Ulterior motive: A secret or hidden reason for doing something.
Viscous: Something sticky and semifluid.
Vista: A grand scenic view.
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About the Author
Shane Phipps teaches eighth-grade U.S. history and is the Social Studies Department Chair at Decatur Middle School in Indianapolis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in social studies education from Indiana University and a master’s degree in education from Indiana Wesleyan University. A love of travel, the outdoors, and history has taken Shane, his wife, Jeanna, and their daughter, Molly, to many of the locations explored in this book.