. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . Ik PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. rillLADEMIIIA AND ST. LOUIS: SCAMMELL & COMPANY^ PUBLISHERS. 1887. .lid COFYRIOHT 1SS2, By SCAMMELL & CO. All Ilii^hts Reserved. PREFACE. MANY are the books that give in interesting detail the ad-ventures of a single or a few heroes, or of a restricted regionof the American frontiers. But it has been the conception of thisvolume to present a broad view, embracing the more celebratedepisodes of the life led by the most noted pioneer explorers,early settlers and brave soldiers who have won distinction inborder warfare. It is
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . Ik PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. rillLADEMIIIA AND ST. LOUIS: SCAMMELL & COMPANY^ PUBLISHERS. 1887. .lid COFYRIOHT 1SS2, By SCAMMELL & CO. All Ilii^hts Reserved. PREFACE. MANY are the books that give in interesting detail the ad-ventures of a single or a few heroes, or of a restricted regionof the American frontiers. But it has been the conception of thisvolume to present a broad view, embracing the more celebratedepisodes of the life led by the most noted pioneer explorers,early settlers and brave soldiers who have won distinction inborder warfare. It is surely a worthy task to gather, in a natu-ral, chronological succession, records of those thrilling exploits,the recitals of which, oft repeated, have secured their heroesimmortality. If it be objected that many of these worthies seemed to lack asufficient respect for the sacredness of human life, their surround-ings should be remembered. If they were apparently too readywith the knife or the trigger, it was because their own lives
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