. 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 .. . ch had greetedthem in the awful confines of the mountain camp. Patrick Brinand his wife were found lolling in the sun, perfectly satisfied withtheir condition. They had entirely devoured the bodies of JacobDonners two children. As all of their own children were alive, it TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF THE DONXER PARTY. ()G0 was conjectured that Donners had been killed to furnish theseloathsome cannibals with food. Lying beside them was the body ofMrs. Graves, nearly all of the flesh having been cut from her armsand legs, and in a vessel then boiling over the fire, were found herheart, liver and breasts. Beside her mangled body sat her littlechild crying bitterly. Horror was here at its acme. Human bru-tality and degradation could go no further. Leaving three men to convey these miserable beings to the settle-ments, Eddy and Foster pressed forward rapidly to the awful moun-tain camp. Here they found five children; one of Mrs. Murphys,one of Jacob Donners and three of George Donners. They found. THE INFAMOUS CLARK—THE SHOEMAKER. here a man named Clark, a shoemaker by trade, who had gone outwith Reed, ostensibly for the purpose of aiding the immigrants, butreally, as was afterwards seen, to rob them. When discove
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