. 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 .. . ir way to the ColumbiaRiver. Here they were unmolested, and had a prosperous following season, (1825), they also spent here, making excur-sions down into the country of the Mountain Utes, along the Uintah,the Grand, and the other tributary waters of the Colorado. TheseIndians they found to be friendly, but treacherous, and disposed tosteal their horses. The Utes, at that time, observed the same i)recautions, to keeptheir race of pure blood, that they use to-day. Any of their squaws,who disobeyed this rule of the tribe, Averc, Avith their offspring,straightAvay put to death, so that in all their tribes, I ha\e neverseen a single half-breed. The only exception they make, is in favor 414 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. of children taken young and adopted into the tribe, in which case,they are regarded as true Utes, and not as aliens. Ouray, their lastgrand chief, was an Arrapaho, taken when a child, in a foray of thesemountain Indians into the plains of the Arkansas. By shrewdness,. THE SNAKE CHIEF, PIM—THE FEIEND OF THE TRAPPERS. bravery, and a cunning truckling to the whites, Ouray gained anabsolute sway amongst his people, and his death was a great loss tothe whites, as his voice was always raise
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