. 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 .. . ival crews to adjourn to some convenientspot and pair off at fisticuffs, until all hands were satisfied, or theproper grade of a fighters powers established. In these combatsMikes gigantic strength made him a formidable competitor, weighing^as he did one hundred and eighty pounds, without an ounce ofsuperfluous flesh. His talk was that of the regular Salt RiverRoarer, and was seasoned with a rough sort of humor, that gainedfor its possessor the reputation of a wit, and of this he was veryproud. It was his custom, when he had given utterance to what he con-sidered a joke, to lead the laugh at his own wit, and woe to the manwho was so dull of comprehension that he could not see the point or I MIKE FIXK THE LAST OF THE FLATBOATJIEN. 305 join in the cachinnation. His jokes, said Fink, were made tolaugh at, and he didnt intend that they should be slighted, andforthwith he would j)roceed to belabor the unlucky wight. On oneoccasion, while his boat was tied up at Westport, on the Ohio River,. ONE OF MIKE FINKS JOKES. jVIikewas, as usual, cracking his jokes to an admiring audience. Inone corner sat a small, quiet-looking man, evidently very muchabstracted, and deeply bent on attending to his own business. Jokeaf
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