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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what youraust, (for he never answ^ers yes or no) are fiats; the ipse^iixits of an emperor, the bulls of a pope. If he has a partner, or;is he would call him a pard, that partner is to him wife, chil-dren and friends. If he be a solitary prospector, then he lavishesthe wealth of his affection upon his burro, and exhibits all of a moth-ers tender solicitude toward it, patting it, petting it, and feedingit on the choicest dainties in the burro bill of fare; scraps of gunnysacks, bacon rinds and tent poles. When bounteous nature has been kind, the prospector works onhis own capital; when she frowns, he operates on a grub-stake,that is; some one furnishes him with food and an outfit, and sharesin all of his discoveries. The grub-staker is sometimes a gentleman,often an extortionate grocer, or other hanger-on to mining camps. ^78 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. Occasionally it is a laundress, or some other of the softer sex, whohas cast her fortunes in the mountain mining camps. Of the grocers,
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NTGHT SCENE ON LAKE BESSIE—HEAD OF EAST FORK OF GUNNISON RIVEB. probably the most fortunate, the most noted and the most infamousexample is H. A. W. Tabor,_the Colorado bonanza king, who made INDIAN ATROCITIES. 379 his first rise in life by staking two Dutch cobblers, Hook andRitchey, the discoverers of world-famed Little Pittsburg. The assayer, too, cuts an important figure in the mountains. Mostof these scientific gentlemen make cheek take the place of brains,and their whole course of study can usually be summed up in twoweeks spent in sweeping out the laboratory of some alleged assayer.Starting into business with a couple of formulas for the scorifica-tion assay, they soon assume an air of wisdom, to which a Dana ora Humboldt would not dare to aspire. They then talk learnedly ofchlorides, argentiferous galena and pyrargirites. Someof these learned Thebans have found that a pulverized jug-liandle, or grindstone, would yield from forty to ninety ounces ofsilver to the ton ! The ore

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