. 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 .. . ll tree with accessible limbs selected. A rope wasnow thrown across a branch and at one end a noose was victims neck was encircled with this, his hands tied behind hisback, five minutes granted him to make his peace with Heaven, andthen unhesitating hands seized the other end of the rope and with astrong pull swung the poor wretch into the air. The name of theman and his crimes were written on a piece of paper supplementedby the words, the penalty whereof is death, and signed, Byorder of the committee, 406, or some other cabalistic this legend read, Hung for contempt of court, some-times, for stealing dust, etc. This was pinned to the tree and thebody left swinging to the limb. At last the dan2;ers which mio;ht have been forseen, arose fromthis lawless administration of law; the vigilance committee becamean instrument of private vengeance. If a member had a personalenemy he trumped up some charge against him and had him warned CIO CONQUERING THE CALIFORNIA CRIMINALS AND VIGILANCE COaOIITTEES. 611 bj the committee. Conscious of his innocence, the accused wouldncfc go and of course had to suffer for his contumacy. To such an£xi;ent was this carried, that the citize
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