. 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 .. . to strip the dead, and Benham, though sufferingagonies with his wounds, and almost famished for food and water,kept himself thoroughly quiet until they had departed. The succeeding day he shot a large raccoon, which was descending atree, but was unable to get it, and hearing a human voice calling,a short distance off, he reloaded his rifle, and lay perfectly quiet,expecting every moment to see a band of Indians appear. Soon thesame voice was heard still nearer at hand, but cocking his rifle, Ben-ham made no reply. A third call was now heard, and a voice CONQUEEING THE WILDERNESS. exclaimed: For Gods sake, answer—^whoever you are—even if itis an Indian I This convinced Benham that it was one of the Ken-tuckians, and he speedily called him to his hiding-place. It provedto be a man named Taylor. When Taylor appeared, Benham saw that he had been shot throughboth arms. Together they made a complete man—separated theymust both starve. Taylor kicked the raccoon to Benham, who skinned,. CAPTAIN ROBEKT BENHAM, HERO OF THE WONDERFTTL ESCAPE AT THE MOUTH OF THE LICKING. dressea and cooked it, then feeding himself and his comi^anion. Inthis way they lived. Benham would load his rilic and kill the game,his comr
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