. 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 .. . inue his journeyon foot. The others reaching the horse, one of them would mountand ride out his trick, and tie up the horse for the last one. Fromthis practice arose the expression ride and tie, so generallyused in the West to designate any enterprise, in which the partiesare to share equally in the pleasures and hardships. Occasionally the owner of some well built boat, would want ittaken back to be reloaded; in fact this was not at all was accomplished in the following manner: On each side of the BILL SEDLEY. 311 boats deck were planks running its full length, and called walkingboards. Placing the ends of their long poles, called setting poles,on the bottom, they applied their shoulders to the other end, andwalking from the bow to the stern, propelled the craft against theheavy current. In the lighter stretches of the current, long oars orsweeps were substituted, and when, from too great depth, too swiftcurrent, or any other cause, neither of these modes could be used, a. BILL SEDLEYS flight FROM THE SWAMP. long rope was attached to the inside gunwale, near the bow, andtaken on shore, and the boat was dragged along by this means. Thismethod of propulsion was called cordelling. Natchez Under
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