. 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 .. . a lion—not a oneof the cowardly Crows would have escaped; but rallying three of thebravest of the sub-chiefs, he had them to load their rifles as fast aspossible, and dropping back toward the enemy, he kept betweenthe others and danger, always with a loaded rifle in his this was discharged, he would run to one of the chiefs andget a rifle and then face his enemies, the others again falling back. In this way, by forming a rear guard of a single man, a massacreof his followers was prevented. When he reached the village, how-ever, instead of the ovation he had a right to expect, he met only OLD bill WILLIAMS. 451 frowns and averted eyes. The next day the medicine man of thevilhige, togged out in all of his gaudy paraphernalia, approachedhim, and touching him decorated pipe, commanded him toappear, unarmed, at the council lodge that evening, to answer to acharge of conspiracy against the Great Crow Nation, and of witch-craft against the medicine of the Great LITTLE RAVEN—THK CROW MEDICINE MAN. To such an accusation as this. Rose knew that there could be butone outcome, as the charge of witchcraft is always fixed on thosewhom the Indians intend to put out of the way at all haz
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