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 (14769479464)

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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Triplett, Frank
Subjects: Indians of North America Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Chicago, Werner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ildren, and a few rough stools answered the uses oftheir teachers. Both the teachers and scholars were clad in theirbest, and the scene was one of peace and joy. Boys, almost burst-ing with suppressed mischief, and dainty little bits of femininity,radiant with health and beauty, filled the seats, and the hum of theirsoft voices suffused the air with music. Some had verses to say,others questions to ask—those questions, which from fools and chil-dren, outdo the wisdom of sages; unanswerable queries, framed bywho knows what process of reason or intuition. Here some tender maiden, still in the happy boundary of her teens,teaches to a golden-haired damsel the blessed way that she so earlyfound. Here some future Senator propounds questions in regardto the theocracy of the Israelites, that might Avell puzzle sager politicaleconomists than the worthy matron in whose class he studies. Theyouthful superintendent listens respectfully to the enthusiastic PIONEER SCHOOLS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 349
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350 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. praises bestowed by a buxom optimist upon her small class of juve-niles—which she pours forth with a volubility supposed to be pecu-liarly feminine—and turns again to his Bible class, composed of theolder pupils. In this class may be found the young farmers and other youths,who are soon to begin their battle with the world as lawyers, doc-tors, or merchants. In a few years some of them will be filling pul-pits or occupying places upon the bench, in the arena of jDolitics, orin the halls of Congress; some will have gone down to the darkvalley of the shadow, filling untimely graves. Time stands forno man, halt him as we may. In this class, too, we see the gentle maidens, whose eyes are filledwith the dreamy unrest of their vague longings, and whose footfallswill soon pass from the mystic boundary of girlhood to the morerugged paths and sterner duties of maternity. These are the futureMothers in Israel, who shall lead up another generation to thealtar,