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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ing off, also,all of the most prominent men who favored a return to law andorder. These, with Terry and Maloney, they locked up in cells attheir headquarters. Terry was held a close prisoner for sevenweeks. In the meantime Hopkins recovered and Terry was triedand set at liberty. It is said that at his trial one hundred and fiftywitnesses were examined. While thus illegally held, the Legislatureof Texas, Terrys former home, petitioned the General Governmentto interfere in the matter. On the 18th day of August the committee made a final parade;on the 1st of September they disbanded and on the 3rd of Novem-ber they returned to the Governor the arms belonging to the State,and thus ended the lono-est rei2;n of mob law and of riot ever wit-nessed in the United States. 614 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. Although some excuse nicay be found for the first assembling ofthe vigilantes, yet the second was by no means justified by the cir-cumstances, and after the hanging of Cora and Casey, the commit-
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LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRU—AN INCIDENT OP PIONEER DAYSIN CALIFORNIA. tee was neither more nor less than a vicious mob, defying the con-stituted authorities and subverting all law and order. Their treat-ment of Terry, a member of their Supreme Bench, was infamous. CHAPTER X. CALIFOKNIA DUELS. A FAVOKITE MKTHOD OF SETTLING QUARRELS PUBLIC SENTIMENT ORI-GIN OF THE DUEL KNIGHTLY DUTY PENALTY OF COWARDICE WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN SUCH COMBATS A SINGULAR DUEL THE BRUTE CHAMPION SIR WALTER SCOTT BOON COMPANIONS THE BRUTAL MURDER THE FAITHFUL DOG THE ACCUSATION PREPARATIONS FOR THE COMBAT JUSTICE VINDICATED THE FALSE COMRADE SENTENCED THE FIRST CALIFORNIA DUEL WANT OF INTEREST WALKER AND GRAHAM CAUSE OF THIS AFTAIR GRAHAMS DECLARATION THE HALT PARTICULARS OF THE FIGHT WALKER AVOUNDED DISADVAN-TAGE OF A SUORT VEST FATE OF GRAHAM WITH WALKER IN NICA-RAGUA. A sketch of California, with no allusion to California duels, wouldsomewhat resemble the play of Hamlet, as once produced b)^ theveteran a

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