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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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es,and as Columbus had first navigated the American seas on the East,so Vasco Nunez de Balboa, toiling up to the top of the highest peakon the Isthmus of Darien, first of all Europeans beheld spreadout before him the calm, majestic waters of the Pacific Ocean. Taking possession of seas and shores in behalf of the Crown oiCastile, Balboa made no attempt to explore the ocean he had discovered, and though this discovery occurred in the year 1513, ye:we find that the Spaniards made no effort to colonize Californi:proper—into ^yUich they had, in the meantime, made several 558 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. explorations—untilJuly 1st, 1769, when the Jesuits, from the penin-sula of Lower California, founded the mission of San Diego. Onthe 25th of October following the establishment of this mission,Don Gaspar Portali discovered the Bay of San Francisco, and inJune, 1775, the rudely built schooner, the San Carlos, sailed into theplacid waters of the Golden Gate and hers was the first keel that
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HAILING THE SHIP—THE SAN CARLOS ENTERING THE GOLDEN GATE. ever ploughed the land-locked bosom of the bay. Following in thewake of the Jesuits came various attempts at domination over theslope, but as these do not concern the present purposes of our nar-rative, they will bo noticed in another place. About the year 1841, not only the United States, but also Eng-land, France, Spain, and possibly Kussia were looking with longing A GENERAL HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. 559 eyes toward the strip of fertile territory lying between the RockyMountains and the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and as the AmericanRepublic had not then attained to its present power, or celerity ofaction, it was difficult to say into whose Jap it would fall. Toshow how evenly it hung in the balance, it is only necessary toquote the words of M. Duliot de Mofras, who at that time, in acommunication to his government, says: It is perfectly clear thatCalifornia will belong to whatsoever nation will take the trouble tosend there

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