. 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 .. . rty that a fitting climaxmight end and crown a life without a stain and without a fear. David Crockett was born in the eastern part of Tennessee on the17th day of August, 1786, when the Indians still roamed over a por-tion of that State and committed their midnight murders and otheratrocities. One of his uncles was a captive with the Creek Indiansfor eighteen years; his infirmities, he being a deaf mute, renderingit almost impossible for him to effect his escape. Crocketts child-hood and youth possessed more than the usual share of trouble, buthe surmounted all of them in a manly way. In 1809, having married, he moved across the mountains to LincolnCounty, where he remained two years and from there went to Frank-lin County. While living here the war of 1812 broke out and in 738 DAVY CROCKETT. 739 1813 the Indians, stirred up by the British emissaries, beganhostilities. At the first call for recruits Crockett volunteeredunder Andrew Jackson and distinguished himself as a spy, scout and. DAVID CROCKETT. sharp-shooter. His wife having died during his term of service,Crockett married again and was now elected magistrate, and fromthe necessity which arose for a knowledge of legal forms, obtained 740 COXQUERIN
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