. Conquering the wilderness; or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America, a full account of the romantic deeds, lofty achievements, and marvellous adventures of Boone, Kenton, Clark, Logan, Harrod, the Wetzel brothers, the Bradys, Poe and other celebrated frontiersmen and Indian fighters ... with picturesque skteches of border life past and present, backwoods camp-meeting, schools and Sunday-schools; heoric fortitude and noble deeds of the pioneer wives and mothers, flatboating, the overland route and its horrors; the gold fever and filibusteri
. Conquering the wilderness; or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America, a full account of the romantic deeds, lofty achievements, and marvellous adventures of Boone, Kenton, Clark, Logan, Harrod, the Wetzel brothers, the Bradys, Poe and other celebrated frontiersmen and Indian fighters ... with picturesque skteches of border life past and present, backwoods camp-meeting, schools and Sunday-schools; heoric fortitude and noble deeds of the pioneer wives and mothers, flatboating, the overland route and its horrors; the gold fever and filibustering expeditions; ... eccentricities and self-sacrificing labors of Cartwright, Axley and other celebrated pioneer preachers, and describing life and adventure on the plains .. . ongs Expedi-tion, which occurred in 1819, and from tlicnceforth eTames Bowiewas a citizen of the section afterwards denominated Texas. On the5th day of October, 1830, he became a naturalized citizen of Mexico, COLONEL JAMES BOWIE. 721 at Saltillo, and in a short time afterward married, at San Antonio, aSiffnorita Veramundi, dauijhter of the Vice-Govcrnor. A happy marriage seems not to have tamed the adventurous spiritof this pioneer and in November, 1831, we find him, liis brotherRezin, seven other Americans and two negroes starting from SanAntonio to searcli for the old silver mines of San Saba. The expe-dition was destined to produce more of excitement than of preciousmetal, for before they reached the old Mission of San Saba, theywere surrounded by a war party of Caddo and Tehuacana Indians,one hundred and sixty-four in number. Nothing was left to theAmericans but to entrench as best they might and fight as desper-ately as possible for their lives. A slight depression in the ground. RUINS OF LAFITTES FORT OX GALVESTON ISLAND. was selected and as hastily as possible a slight breast-work coveredthem in a measure from the savages. The latter, seeing that theywere nearly twenty to one, closed in on them a
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