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 (14748828976)

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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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we included all other necessaries—and start without a moments delayfor the Great American Desert. Once there, we intended to spend ourtime trapping, hunting Indians and chasing buffalo. How many othershave had similar visions ! How different the reality from what wehad dreamed ! We find, when we reach it, the Great AmericanDesert no desert at all, but the bed of a vanished sea, over whichroamed immense herds of buffalo, bands of elk, and flocks ofantelope. To lend variety to the scene, there were beastly Indians, and filthyhalf-breeds, and that nondescript, the prairie man, a white manwith an Indian wife, and family of mixed race. These were gener-ally either Frenchmen or Spaniards, men of that Latin stock that,unlike the Saxon and the Anglo-Norman, has ever been ready to 358 COXQUERIXG THE WILDEKNES8, mingle its blood with that of the inferior races. There were someexceptions, however, and in my own experience I was acquaintedwith several Americans, w^ho were known as Squaw Men, or
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Bii? Injun me! SHAVED-IIEAD—THE PAWNEE CHIEF. Prairie Men; all whites having 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