. 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 .. . gray wolves. Adam Poe would have classedthe Indians also in this category. Along the streams toward theEast, where there was some timber, wild turkeys were pilgrims included in the game list the social little prairie-dogs, whose holes accommodate not only their own families, but also 366 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS, ^iif^i^i!fiiii^»^ w iM !I lliiillll =^=^^ i>, < iiiiiiiiiiii .^«..^INll ci. ,//, ?,¥i ?sasiiigjiiiiit^iiiii,! PLAINS CHARACTERS. 367 the fierce rattlesnakes and the beautiful little white burrowing owls,which happy family has often caused me to speculate on the partplayed by the rattlesnake in the domestic economy of this incon-gruous combination. Whether his gratitude was great enough to cause him to refusetender young prairie-dog, when his appetite craved somethingdainty; or whether his friendship was of that ardent kind, whichwould restrain him from making free with the puffy little squabowls, when he came home in the humor for a game supper, has. A PA>;iC IN CAMP- -AN UNWELCOME VISITOR. caused me frequent cogitations. Sometimes it has occurred to methat both owls and snakes, by a wise provision of nature, subsistentirely on prairie-puppies, and thus keep down, in a
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