. 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 .. . ed dead men forbreakfast, and the hillside graveyard, in its rapidly increasingtenantry of men, who had died with their boots on, became animportant affair. In this ghostly retreat, were laid to rest the bodies of those, whowere brought in from terminal sections or beyond. These weregenerally the bodies of section men, killed while on some solitaryerrand to the front, or some unprotected and unarmed gang oftrack-layers, surprised by the pet of the Indian Bureau, and ruth-lessly massacred. Often an alarm would come in of Indians,andahandfull of troopers—too few to be dangerous, too green to beserviceable—would be sent out on a scout along the track. Fromthe top of some prairie swell, they would see, vanishing in the dis-tance, the hard-riding savages, whose light, hardy ponies invariablydistance the heavy horses of our cavalry. Nearer at hand, however, lay evidence that Lo had been on his back, fuller of arrows than ever was Indian quiver, •610 INDIAISI o72 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. lies some brawny son of Erin, or some fair-haired and golden beardeddescendant of the old-time Vikings. Far from his northern home,beside the fretful seas, he had journeyed, to pour out his l
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