. 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 .. . ^ the stain which his piracy Dadleft upon his name and Bean, of course, proved himself worthy of 734 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. il; his former deeds. Owing to the troubled condition of affairs inthe States, Bean was forced to return without meeting with the suc-cess he had hoped for. Sailing for his adopted country in anotherof Lafittes vessels, he returned the following year, accompanied bythe patriotic Herrara. In 1818 Bean visited his parents in Tennessee and lingered sometime at his boyhoods home. Still restless, he next went to. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN. Arkansas, but after a short stay in that State, went as a colonist toTexas and settled at IVIound Prairie. In 1825, after the overthrowof Spanish dominion in Mexico, Bean went thither and was mostcordially received by his old republican companions-in-arms whoever retained a warm affection for him. His commission as colonelwas restored to him and he Mas appointed Indian agent for Texas, ELLIS r. BEAX AND OTHERS, 735 to which State he returned and where, in 18o2, he built Fort Teran,on the Neches River. Here his services were invahiable to the Americans during thestruo-o-le, in 1&3G, as by his firm policy the Indians of East Texasremained quiet spectators of
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