. 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 .. . hey met, at aroadside spring, William C. Stewart, Benjamin Arthur and JoelWhite, and stated their business to them. Stewart immediately shotone of them, a young man named Aden, and Joel White woundedthe other, who escaped again to the beleaguered camp on themeadows. The immigrants now learned, for the first time, that the Mormonswere not only the instigators, but were also actors in the attack, andthey prepared for a desperate defense. The wagons were in corralshape—that is, almost a complete circle with a narrow openingtoward the front—and they now closed up the gaps by locking thewheels together with chains, and then dug a large rifle-pit, in whichthe women and children were placed. Dash after dash was made by 529 530 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. the godless Mormons and their savage allies, but each time the hand-full of brave men swept them back Avith loss. 0\>e small band of Indians deserted, but their place was morethar supplied by Mormons and Indians from outlying camps and. ^^^1^ m^i^
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