. 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 .. . o, in order to kill a buffalo, as theywere getting out of provisions and had become tired of they made their way cautiously down to the feedinggrounds of the large herds of buffalo, they had seen from theirhiding place in the hills, and were soon crawling toward a smajl,detached drove, which bad not observed them. When they hadapproached nearly within shooting distance, they saw the animalstoss their heads up and start toward them. Looking anxiously beyond, to see what had caused the alarm ofthe drove, they beheld a dozen Indians just riding over a swell inthe plain, having evidently started in pursuit of these they, too, been seen? was now a question the trappers asked of TIIE SUBLETTES. 601 each other. Presumably not, for instead of separating so as to sur-round them on all sides, the Cheyennes rode straight at the drove,and on came both hunters and hunted, while the earth shook beneaththe thunder of their hoof-beatSo The two white men crawled swiftly. into a deep, prairie draw, which fortunately was near them, and hidthemselves in the long thick grass. Cooped up in their narrow quarters, the day passed slowly to theimpatient trappers who, from their hiding place, could
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