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 (14771558722)

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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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r, he waaa Tennesseean; an offshoot of the old pioneer stock, who had inher-ited a love of adventure and danger that had thus early carried himacross the Rocky Mountains as a trapper and hunter and made hima fixture in this strange land. To his cabin in the mountains of Santa Cruz, fled Alvarado, toescape arrest at the hands of his chief, Ramirez. He could not havefound a happier refuge, for Graham not only gave him shelter, but,like a true adventurer, formed a plan for overturning the rule of K RAPID CONQUEST. 571 Ramirez and )\Iexican authority together and proclaiming Califor-nia a free State—after the manner of the American States—withAlvarado at its head. Danger could not deter, nor numbers terrify this pioneer of lib-erty on the Pacific Slope, and procuring a supply of ammunitionfrom the American vessels on the coast, he placed himself at thehead of fifty riflemen and aided by Alvarado and Jose Castro, withabout one hundred native Californians, entered Monterey at ni<rht.
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POT LUCK IN THE PIONEER UAYS OF CALIFORNIA. sent a four-pound shot crashing through the house of Gutierrez,(acting Governor), as a salute, and captured him and some threehundred soldiers. The thing was accomplished—the revolutioneffected and only one shot had been fired. The proclamation wasthen immediately loaded up and touched off. Grahams idea was carried out, so far as proclaiming Californiaan independent State with Alvarado as civil and Vallejo as militarjgovernor. To show the amount of toleration of which the Mexicaijmind was capable, all religions were interdicted, except the Catholic 57^ CONQUERING l^HE WILDERNESS Alvarado, not meeting with ready recognition from the masses,was recognized by the Mexican government and in turn, submittedthe State again to Mexican rule. Grahams reward for placing thiscreature in power, as well as for affording him shelter when in dis-tress, was to be arrested and sent to the City of Mexico a prisoner.Here he was held until July, 1842, and only