. 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 .. . erever he went be found himself a noted personage. His origi-nality and good sense enabled him to extend bis celebrity and bisfame was soon spread over the whole country. He was welcomedin every society and bis adaptability prevented him from makingany of the numerous blunders, into which a man of less judgmentwould have fallen. He served two terms in Congress, was beatenthe third, through the Jackson influence, but again elected the suc-ceediniT term and made a tour of the northern cities, wbere he DAVY CROCKETT. 741 created quite a furore and his visit was a continual round of dinnersand festivities. At Baltimore he was presented Avith a magnifi-cent rifle. Returning to his native State, he again offered for Congress,but his opponents, by an unscrupulous use of money and in variousnefarious Avays succeeded, in spite of all of his popularity, in defeat-ing him. Assembling his former constituents, Crockett pointed outto them whither the country was drifting when the votes of its citi-. SANTA ANNA. zens could be purchased and when bribery became an open instru-ment in politics. In concluding this farewell address, he told thepeople that they might, if they did not like his plain manner ofspeech, go to the
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