. 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 .. . proclamation wasthen immediately loaded up and touched off. Grahams idea was carried out, so far as proclaiming Californiaan independent State with Alvarado as civil and Vallejo as militarjgovernor. To show the amount of toleration of which the Mexicaijmind was capable, all religions were interdicted, except the Catholic 57^ CONQUERING l^HE WILDERNESS Alvarado, not meeting with ready recognition from the masses,was recognized by the Mexican government and in turn, submittedthe State again to Mexican rule. Grahams reward for placing thiscreature in power, as well as for affording him shelter when in dis-tress, was to be arrested and sent to the City of Mexico a he was held until July, 1842, and only then released at theintercession of the English consul and other foreign officials. Micheltorena now succeeded Alvarado. It was in the interresTnumbetween the stepping out of Alvarado and the stepping in of his suc-cessor that Commodore Jones captured the State and held it for. GUTIERREZ CAPTURED BY GRAHAM. twenty-four hours. Castro next effected a revolution, appointingPio Pico civil governor and proclaiming California again an inde-pendent State. Castros republic, as we have already seen, w\ass
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