. 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 .. . their language. When they hadconcluded, however, he arose and after telling them who he was,informed them that it would be a danger, accompanied by but littlespoil, if he was attacked, for that he would sell his life as dearly aspossible. For the time the danger was over, but as he moved theIndians enveloped him and when he camped for the night, theyagain went into council. Carson now took a Spanish boy whom he had raised and advis-ing him of the peril and just how to act, started him off three hun-dred miles for succor. He told the hardy youth that he must travelfast if he would save his own life or that of any of the little the council the Indians voted to attack the next day, but whendawn came, Carson called their attention to the tracks of thehorse, upon which he had sent off his messenger, and told them thatthe boy would bring up troops to aid them, if living; to avenge them,if dead. He told them that he had particularly instructed the boy G52 CONQUETITXO THE WILDEKXES^.. STIRRING ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON. 653 to name the tribe and the chiefs engaged and to hurry up the sol-diers as rapidly as possible. Fearing the vengeance that they felt sure would follow the deathof such a man as (arson,
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