. Conquérir le désert; ou, Nouvelle histoire picturale de la vie et des temps des héros pionniers et des héroïnes de l'Amérique, un compte rendu complet des oeuvres romantiques, des réalisations nobles, Et des aventures merveilleuses de Boone, Kenton, Clark, Logan, Harrod, les frères Wetzel, les Bradys, PoE et d'autres célèbres frontiermen et combattants indiens ... avec des skteches pittoresques de la vie frontalière passé et présent, Backwoods camp-réunion, écoles et dimanche-écoles; force héorique et nobles actions des femmes et des mères pionnières, bateau à voile, la voie terrestre et ses horreurs; la fièvre de l'or et 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 .. . ge but the trader andhimself. He then selected such articles as he fancied, often taking half ofthe goods, but to remunerate the white man, he forced the tribe tobuy the rest at a double valuation. In this way he remained on thebest of terms with all of the traders; benefitting them and enrichinghimself at the expense of his followers, somewhat after the mannerof more civilized princes, and high tariff politicians. Remorse seemed never to trouble his adaptable conscience, exceptupon a single occasion. His favorite squaw offended him in someway, and with a single blow of his knife he stretched her dead at hisfeet. In an instant he realized what the violence of his temper hadcaused him to do. Seating himself in his lodge, he covered his ADVENTUEES OF J. S. SMITH, THE TRAPPER. 487 head with his blanket, and in his solitude gave way to the agony of his grief. For three days and nights he remained thus, deaf to the prayersand entreaties of his people, and never moved, until at last, one of. BLACKBIRD, CHIEF OF THE OMAHAS. the squaws brought in the little child of the dead woman, and rais-ing the leg of the chief, placed the child beneath it, with the footof the chief upon its neck, and then left the lodge. Ro

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