. 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 .. . THE GENUINE ARTICLE. Jackson, the senior partner of Jackson, Sublette and Smith,after a life of unusual excitement, qassed quietly away in his bed,surrounded by friends. Ashley died in St. Louis. Henry, who had become a member of Congress, also, after innum-erable adventures and narrow escapes, died in St. Louis. He was aman of unusual daring and determination, and at one time, wheniurrounded by Blackfeet, calmly walked toward them, and opened 516 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. ttie way without firing a shot, the savages retreating before the terri-ble glance of the desperate trader. JosciGh Bissonette died on the plains, and not very long since. Godey—who, with Kit Carson, pursued a band of twenty Indiansfor two hundred miles, and overtaking, routed them and recoveredthe stock they had stolen—after a thousand desperate exploits, diedin California. I. JACK MOKROW. Fitzpatrick—who was with Ashley and Henry, and afterwardswith Jackson, Sublette and Smith—was a man of education. Braveas a lion, and of cool judgment, he was one of the fourteen menselected to go ahead of the main body, and make their way first tothe Yellowstone, and then to the Columbia. He was with and ofthe first white men who ever saw
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