. 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 .. . ode up to our fortification and held a long con-versation with their Ogalalla friends, Avho were encamped with a half hour of jovial converse, the three rode off, and whenthey had disappeared over the sand-hills, toward the RepublicanRiver, one of the Ogalallas informed us that the largest and jolliestof the three had had his leg broken by a rifle bullet, at Turgeons,that morning. After leaving his ranche. Jack went to Omaha and for a timelived there in grand style. Here, at first, he rapidly increased in 51-4 CONQUEEING THE WILDERNESS. wealth by taking contracts ard playing poker with visiting Congress-men. He is reported, in one night to have won sixty thousanddollars from a committee, the members of which were out to exam-ine into Pacific railroad matters. At another time, rumor had itthat he made fully as much by a swindling contract—to furnish tiesand timber to the railroad. These events were immensely exag-gerated, no doubt, and probably by no one more greatly than by. THE INDIAN OF THE NOVELIST. himself, for if a rogue, Jack at least had the merit of being a bold one. Jacks bravery was of the doubtful stamp and ^st fightingmen he was regarded more as a bhiffcr than a truly brave m
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