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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suit, and secretingthemselves, they saw the savages dash by on horses. These, how-ever, were no more successful than the others had been, and makingtheir way to the river, the boys fastened two logs together and suc-ceeded in crossing it, and soon after reached the house of aneighbor. The young heroes were highly complimented on their courage andfortitude, and this exploit seemed to all an indication of their fitnessto take their places as defenders of the border, when age should havegiven them experience, and maturity had fitted them to endure thehardships of camp and battle, and to their native strength and cour-age had added the caution of the trained scout, and the agility of the athlete, Lewis was the strongest and most active, not only of his family,but of all the youths on the western borders of Virginia, and he hadby long practice gained the ability to loaa nis rifle while running atfull speed, an accomplishment which was of immense advantage to 142 COXQUERIXG THE WJT.DERNESS.
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THE ^iETZELS. 143 him in after-life. The first exploit in which he put in practice thisfeat of loading while at full speed, happened when he was about sev-enteen years of age. Thomas Mills, who had accompanied Crawfordin his ill-fated expedition, escaped with his life, riding in his flightto what was known as Indian Spring, a few miles from .Wheeling.Here—the country being very rough—he dismounted, tied his horse,and reached the settlement on foot. Not wishing to dare alone the dangers of a return for the horse,he induced Lewis Wetzel to accompany him. Arriving at the spring,they saw that the horse was still tied there, and some intuition toldWetzel that this was ominous. Warninjj^Mills that it would be dan^er-ous to venture to the animal, the older man neglected the caution, andwas proceeding to untie the horse, when Wetzel, seeing the head of anIndian protruding from behind a rock, fired on him, at the sametime calling to ^Nlills to tree. The Indian fell, but at the same time hi

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