. 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 .. . ^ ^lacedon and ancient Rome, have be-come a power second to none. The trading posts and petty villagesof that day are now proud cities, smiling with beauty and adorned. HORSE-SHOE KENNEDY, THE NOVELIST. with all that wealth can give. NYhere then the unbroken forestspread its leafy masses of verdure and the tangled weeds and grassesof the prairie held undisputed sway, the land is smiling with itswealth of fragrant orchards and its fields of golden grain. Vast manufactories, institutions of learning, navy yards, rail-roads and every form and mode of wealth and industry have blessedus beyond anything ever known before. The land is filled withriches, and stately homes now mark the site of Indian camp and G4 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. wigwam. Our products serve the nations, and our granaries feedtne world. Less than one hundred years ago Louisville, thenknown as the Falls of the Ohio, was a rendezvous for Indian expe-ditions, for traders and for boatmen—to-day she counts her popula-tion by the hundreds of thousands; Chicago, a rude fort, situatedin the midst of a low sw^amp, was then deemed hardly fit for humanhabitation—^to-day her people number half
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