. 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 .. . year elected a member of the Legisla-ture of Nebraska. In the drama (Heaven save the mark !) writtenby Buntline, Bill entirely forgot his part, but managed to *gag itsufficiently to get through and the audience, who had not expectedanything, were not disappointed. Wild Bill joined this troop in the ADVENTURES OF BUFFALO BILL. 551 season of 1873-4, but having little ability to learn a part, sconrelinquished the profession. We neglected to state that Bill was acting as guide for Carr inL866, when Custer was killed, Custers chief scout, Antonie—notHerndon, as all newspaper accounts have it—was a man of muchgreater skill and experience than Cody and had Custer paid moreattention to his advice, the terrible catastrophe on the Rosebudmight have been averted. It was in this campaign that Cody killedYellow Hand, in a duel solicited by the latter. Yellow Hand was afamous, young chief of the Cheyennes and his death was a heavyloss to the hostile savages. Of late years Codys adventures have. A PRAIRIE FIRE ON THE PLAINS. been confined to the mimic exploits of the stage, he yearly fillingtheatrical engagements in the principal cities. Every winter finds him slaughtering Indians, baffling villians andcircumventin
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