Despite having forgotten both the lady writer's name and the title of the story which had a certain charm, juxtaposing the relationships between the long term residents and those from "off island."

It recounted that in 1830 an Irish Colonel veteran of the Napoleonic Wars accompanied by sealers recruited in Nantucket, arrived on the island and slaughtered all of the native Cherokee inhabitants, that European settlers arrived while smoke still lingered over their ruined dwellings .. that must have been how the west was won.