. 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 .. . WILD BILL—FKOM A PHOTOGRAPH. three years ago, I could not help smiling at the healthfulness of thisone of the corpses made by Wild Bill. Essaying the role of a gambler, only to be plucked by any sharperof ordinary skill, he was a frequenter of every place of evil repute,and was as great a bully as he was a coward. Mr. Sargent, thedruggist at Junction City, Kansas, once recounted to me one ofWild Bills exploits at that place. A carpenter who was in thegovernment employ at Fort lliley, a fcv miles from Junction City, BUFFALO BILL. 539 came over to the latter place, and was immediately set upon by Billfor a fight. Being a quiet, peaceable man, he declined the combat^and in every honorable way endeavored to evade the bully. Bill finally cornered him and told him he had to fight, or take athrashing, and the carpenter, seeing that there was no escape,prepared to do his best. He told Bill that he was entirely unarmed,and the latter, who was over six feet high and large in proportion. BUFFALO BILL—FROM A PHOTOGKAPH. —while the carpenter was only of medium size—agreed to fight hima fair, fist fight. Throwing off their coats, the combat began, and the carpenter,once in for it, made a desperate battle; Bill
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