Identifier: conqueringwilder00tripuoft (find matches)
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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)risoners frmn the tomahawk, it had beenagived by the white uk^u, that on sighting their enemies, they shouldtirst tii-e upon them and then by a swift charge give them no time tokill the girls. This plan was carried out with complete success.TSvo of the Indians were killed and two wounded, but the latter 80 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS.
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rilL riCKET-GUARD OF CIVILIZATION. 81 escaped with the unwounded one, and without other arms or ammuni-tion than a single gun. Of this event Boone merely gives the drydetails, and McClung says: We know nothing of the conduct ofthe Indians to their captives, or of the situation of the young ladiesduring the short engagement, and cannot venture to fill up the outlinefrom imagination. If any concerted blow had been intended by the Indians, it wasdeferred, owing to the vigilance caused by the incident just related,and the savages confined themselves to a desultory warfare, with noimportant results. An occasional immigrant was added to the set-tlements untilJuly 25th, 1777, when forty-five men arrived at Boons-borough from North Carolina. They were a most welcome additionto that post, which on the 15th of the preceding April had beenattacked by one hundred Indians, though with trifling effect, asthey succeeded in killing but one man and wounding four others,when they retreated with much gr

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