. 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 .. . onstrate on his being treated like a common felon. Informed that he would probably be hung, he pleaded to beturned loose, in the midst of the infuriated savages, armed onlywith a tomahawk. He did not fear death, he said, but he didntwant to die upon the scaffold; he would prefer the stake and thedeath by fire to that. Harmer told him that the scaffold was appointed by the law, and as an officer of that law he mustexecute it, but seeing how the prisoner drooped under his close con-finement, he ordered his spansels knocked off, so that, in charge ofguards, he could take exercise near the fort. His handcuffs wereto remain, and this, with the presence of the guard, was deemedsufficient restraint. Once in the open air, Wetzel frisked about like a young colt,dashing backward and forward, experimenting all the time to see 148 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. how far he could try the patience of the soldiers, for, knowing hisfate if he remained, he had determined to escape. At each run he. WETZELs ESCAPE FROM FORT HARRIER. extended the limit of his course, and finally, with the speed of adeer, darted off into the forest, followed by a volley from the guns THE WETZEL8. 149 of his guard. Once in the wood, he h
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