. 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 .. . oping up the live, glistening coals, would dash themover the body of the victim, and as they fell they made a pathwayof fire, that added immeasurably to their victims agony. At lastexhaustion was beginning to lend its blessing of insensibility tothat tortured body, and he walked slowly backward and forward,supplicating his God, in a low but earnest voice, to have mercyupon him, and to pardon his sins. It was horrible, and Knight suffered with him in mental sympa-thy indescribably agonizing, ignoring the taunts and brutality of thewhite fiend at his side, who at last left him alone and returned to hisequally brutal fellows, the Delawares. Crawford had now passedthe acme of his sufferings, and no longer shrank from the burningrods and heated irons. 18(5 C0NQl5EgKf€J THE WlLDfifiJffiSS. Feebler and feebler he moves around the stake, his feet stumbleupon his path of fire, at last he falls insensible; Nature herself—kind mother of us all—has entered her protest. The ferocious grizzly. bear will not mangle his insensible hunter; surely the Indian—who has at least the semblance of humanity—will not be more shall see! ^tlt btEt) of DEMONS. is? Scarce had he fallen, when a warrior springs upon
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