. 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 .. . SAM. HOUSTON. army of the republic, married a lo^-ily lady, then a refugee in hiscamp; her property having been sequestered by the royal par-ty, on account of her sentiments or devotion to the the conclusion of the revolution, when the Mexicans hadgained the day, his wife recovered her large estates and the herospent his declining years at her hacienda, near the city of Jalapa. 730 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. Here, after a long course of eventful deeds and filled with honor,the evening of his life passed quietly by and here, on the 3rd dayof October, 1846, he ;.^ii*lW* HOUSTON AT TALLAPOOSA. The pioneer heroes of Texas are too numerous for us to giveextended sketches of each. It would take more pages than this his-tory of pioneers could spare, to recount the exploits of such men as ELLIS P. BEAN AND OTHERS. 737 brave Edward Burleson, the hero of thirty battles and not a singleretreat. Of Houston, grim, tyrannical, but brave and American is already familiar with his strange and eventfulhistory. Of Ewen Cameron, who in early youth left the shoresof bonnie Scotia, and who fell in far-off Texas, a victim to the mur-derous hate of infamous Canalis. Of noble, modest Fannin, w
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