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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ob Lurton, John Page and Benjamin Northcut, allearnest and powerful men, and zealous in their Masters cause. Atthis period, the nearest mill to the Cartwrights was forty miles, andthe border filled with thieves, counterfeiters, desperadoes andmurderers. Wolves and other wild beasts abounded in the forests, and travel bynifjht was unsafe on account of them. Cartwrio;ht used to tell a taleof a drunken, old fiddler, who was on his way to play for a dance inthe neighborhood, and was treed upon a high rail fence by a largepack of wolves. So fierce were they, that they began springing upin the air to reach his dangling feet, when a sudden inspiration THE PIONEER PREACHER. 3ia occurred to him, and drawing his bow across his fiddle, he dehghtedhis savage assailants with the melodious strains of Snow Bird onthe Ash Bank, Money Musk, and other of the famous old-timeairs. At last the frolickers, growing impatient, set out in search ofhim with lighted torches, and dispersing his now attentive and
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TREED BY WOLVES. respectful audience, rescued him from his elevated position, and hadtheir ball. Sunday was regularly set apart for horse racing, card playing,balls and parties. After the patience of the honest people had been ■i 320 CONQUERING THE AVILDERNESS. worn out, they formed the inevitable vigilance committee, or regula-tors, and the two factions met in E-ussellville, and fought a pitchedbattle; in which several on each side were killed, many wounded, andthe rogues left masters of the field. On a second trial of strength,the regulators came out ahead, and by lynching, banishing and lash-ing, considerably purified the moral atmosphere. According to Cartwrights own story, he was about as hard a boyas he well could be, and equipped with a fast horse and a deck ofcards, was making considerable progress on the road to ruin, when,through the influence of his mother, he was turned away from hisevil course, and burning his cards, discarding his race horse, andswearing off from his d

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