. 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 .. . , the white manbounded forward, and the confiding Blackfeet saw that it would taketheir best running, if they hoped ever to get near enough even toshoot him. They had, however, one great advantage, and on thisthey relied ; the feet of the white man were naked, while theirsAvere clothed with strong moccasins, and the plain was thickly setwith sand-burs, cacti and priclcly pears. The^ pierced Coltersfeet cruelly, but he did not falter in his race for life. He had run three of the six miles, that lay between him and theJefferson Fork of the Missouri—to which he had directed hiscourse—before he dared to look back. That hurried glance showed 424 CONQUERING THE AVILDETINESS. him, that he had distanced all save one of his pursuers. This onecarried a spear in his hand, and was coming on with the speed ofthe wind. The gap between them was not more than a hundredyards, and he reaUzed that the Indian had been steadily gainingon him. Determined to escape, he now Dut forth a superhuman effort,. SCENE OP colters RACE FOR LIFE. and this came near proving fatal, for a slight hemorrhage was occas-sioned, and the blood burst from his nostrils, Aveakening and almoststrangling him. Keeping on with all the speed possible
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