. 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
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. 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 .. . e sunlight and made a cloud. Theirdogs was full of em, their ponies was full of em, and everyInjun in the gang had a lot of em stickin inter him. I seen oneof em, a big, fat feller, a riding off on his stomach with two longarrows stickin inter the seat of his buckskins, and it put me somuch in mind of a big Dutch pin-cushion, that I like ter die alaughin. In describing this unique combat, the old liar waxedlurid in his profanity, and wound up with the information, that hebelieved them Injuns was a runnin from each other 3it. I once heard old Jim Bcckwith tell a pilgrim how his riirht lejrcame to be afflicted with varicose veins. I was out on foot oneday, about thirty miles from camp, (the Crow village), and on theother side of the mountain, when a hundred Blackfeet jumped me.Well, sir, they was armed only with bows and arrows, (arrers, Jimcalled them), and I had my rifle with me. I shot down their chief, and then I seen I had to make a race for camp. Every d—d one of JIM BRIDGER. 465. 466 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. them Injuns was mounted, and so I took up the mountains, but whenI got half way up I found they was a gainin on me. Look here, Jim, says I to myself, this here wont never do, so I jest thought