. 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 .. . nfamous wretch, Lansford W. Has-tings to take a new route to California. What his object was inleading the party on to anguish and death, can only be conjectured,but he pretended to be thoroughly acquainted Avith a new route bywhich they could save a long detour and speedily reach theirdestination. Almost at their outset they encountered great diflSculty, but con-tinually deceived by the specious lies of Hastings, they proceededon his route, instead (as Eddy and several of the party suggested,) 654 UNPARALLELED HORROR THE CAMP OF DEATH. 655 of retracing their way and taking the old trail. Before they reachedthe Utah Valley their trouble increased; over one portion of theroute they had to cut out a road, consuming thirty days in travelingforty miles. On the 1st day of September, at which time theyshould have been on their way through the Sierras, they struck thevalley south of the Great Salt Lake, and here were detained sometime by the breakage of a wagon, and the death of Mr. WILLIAM EDDY—THE HERO OF THE DONNER PARTY. Ominous storms to the west added to the baleful auguries of deathand accident, and the immigrants hastened forward. Pushing on, thetrain encountered a stretch of country where,
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