. 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 .. . s inveterate hatred of theIndians, but at any time Old Bill was ready to enact the part ofthe wolf in the fable, who accused the lamb of muddying the waterwhich he had to drink, although the lamb was a considerable distancedown the stream. It is rather a stretch of the possible, to assertthat there is anything lamb-like about the American Indian, but forthe purpose of illustration, we will suppose this bureau pet, thelamb, and the white trapper, the wolf, of our iEsopian easternbrethren. 45(5 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. After he had driven off Provost, Williams acted often as a guidefor the government and for private parties. It is said that Fremontpretended that it was through the ignorance of Williams that hemissed his way and failed to find the Cochetopa Pass. This canhardly be true, for Old Bill had been over this pass and into thegreat San Louis Valley with Antoine, Leroux and others. Lerouxattributed Fremonts failure to his pigheadedness in not being will-ing to listen to AN INDIAN LAMB AND A WHITE WOLF--A FABLE OF THE EASTERN SENTIMENTALISTS. He says, that from the point Fremont selected, he could haveseen the Cochetopa Pass, but for a lap in the mountain ranges. Itis a wonder to anyone, A
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