. 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 .. . your abominable sport and persecutions, the next time God willserve you worse, and the devil will get you. Cartwright says: They felt so badly that they never uttered oneword of reply. Now I was very glad that I did not horsewhip them,as I had felt like doing; but that God had avenged his own cause, Ui CONQUERING THE WILDERNJESS. and defended his own honor, without my doing it with carnalweapons; and I may here be permitted to say, that at one of our camp-meetings, I had the great pleasure to see all three of these youngpeople converted to God. Such were the pioneers of religion, mighty men and true, doingGods service in the wilderness—often, it must be confessed, in arude and homely w^ay, but always with earnestness and the roll call of these pioneers, appear the names of Asbury,Cart Wright, Boehm, Axley, McMillan, Broaddus,Vardeman, Thomas,Alexander, Lacey, George, McKendree, Soule and others, who haveIons: since walked with CHAPTER XLI. PIONEER SCHOOLS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS. LOG CABIN SCHOOL-HOUSES THE SEAT OF HONOR CLAY, CALHOUN AND WEBSTER THE PIONEER PEDAGOGUE SOLOMONS MAXIM THE SCHOLARS THE UNLUCKY BOY THE MISCHIEVOUS SCHOLARS THE LITTLE BELLE CHINESE CIVILIZATION MACAULEYS NEW ZEA
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