Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . THE GAMBLER S DEN AT NATCHEZ. 147 prudence dictated a better course; and finally, when the day wasnearly spent, exhausted with fatigue, hunger and excitement, hereached the camp of Colonel Morgan, and placed in his hands thedispatch with which he had been entrusted. THE GAMBLEES DEN AT NATCHEZ. In the earlier days of steamboating in the West, the captains andpilots were men who had served their time and learned their trade. THE ROPE
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . THE GAMBLER S DEN AT NATCHEZ. 147 prudence dictated a better course; and finally, when the day wasnearly spent, exhausted with fatigue, hunger and excitement, hereached the camp of Colonel Morgan, and placed in his hands thedispatch with which he had been entrusted. THE GAMBLEES DEN AT NATCHEZ. In the earlier days of steamboating in the West, the captains andpilots were men who had served their time and learned their trade. THE ROPE BEGAN TO TIGHTEN AND THE HO0SE TO CREAK. upon broadhorns or keel boats, and a rough set they were. Almostborn, and really educated updn the river, passing their days eitherin floating down stream, exposed to the various dangers of thevoyage, or wearily working their boat up again in the face of the rapidcurrent, liable at any time to be attacked by some one of the manygangs of robbers that infested all the region through which theypassed, exposed to heat and cold, to snow and rain; plying the oarby day and the whiskey bottle and fiddle bow by night, they formed 148 THE gamblers den at NATCHEZ. a class strictly sui generis, and a devil-may-care, roystering, ready-handed, and open-hearted one at that. Many tales are told of the exploits of these old river dogs, andamong them one of a certain Captain Russel, familiarly known asDick Russel, who commanded the old Constellation in the palmydays of boating. Russel was a man of great strength—one of those minor Samsonsthat are occa
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