. 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 .. . ner oftheir more mercurial neighbors across the channel. In America there has developed a profession, called interviewing,which has for its object the ferreting out and depicting for the benefitof the reading public, the qualities, opinions and daily habits ofcelebrated and notorious persons and this, together with the immensecollection of biographical and autobiographical sketches Aviiich fillthe columns of our present i)eriodical literature, will afford to thefuture chronicler the richest of materials for reliable history. It is apity that these sources of information did not earlier exist, so thatfuller biographies of the border pioneers, filibusters and other AVcs-tern notables might have been obtained. As it is we are in many TOG COUNT RAOUSSET-BOULBON. 707 cases obliged to content ourselves with the meagre accounts that yetsurvive times Lethean touch. In the early days of the great gold excitement, there arrived inSan Francisco a young, handsome and distinguished looking French-. COUNT KAOUSSET-BOULBON. man, who was known amongst his acquaintances as the Count Raous-set de Boulbon. His bearing was noble and but few doubted hisclaim to the title of Count. He admitted that he was poor and didnot thin
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