. 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 .. . g Indian families being called byone or the other of these titles. Amongst these were men from every rank in life; the desperado,who had sought in the Indian villages a refuge from the outraged THE PLAINS. 359 law, and the TiiiKni-like misanthrope, who fled from the ingratitudeor insipidity of friends. Here were rude, unlettered men, but asingle grade above the dumb animal; and here again was the man ofculture, who had turned in disgust from the impotence of all humanknowledge, and sought in the wilderness to unlearn its vanities. Upon the plains, more often than amongst the mountains, was tobe found the Mountain Man, as the trapper was designated, andthese were the hardiest of all the bold borderers. Of them MiltonSublette and John Smith (no alias, gentle reader!) were types:fearless men of iron, who outdid the fiercest Indian in daring, andthe toughest grizzly in endurance. Of wonderful vitality, andnerves of steel, it is on record, that each of these two men amputa-ted his own A DUG-OTJT. Think of that, ye that dwell in cities, and require an anaestheticfor the removal of an aching tooth ! Here were rare surfjeons—physicians healing themselves ! AVhere did they get their instru-ments, do you a
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