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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impressions of men and things in the agreeable, chatty manner of
their more mercurial neighbors across the channel.
In America there has developed a profession, called interviewing,
which has for its object the ferreting out and depicting for the benefit
of the reading public, the qualities, opinions and daily habits of
celebrated and notorious persons and this, together with the immense
collection of biographical and autobiographical sketches which fill
the columns of our present periodical literature, will afford to the
future chronicler the richest of materials for reliable history. It is a
pity that these sources of information did not earlier exist, so that
fuller biographies of the border pioneers, filibusters and other Wes-
tern notables might have been obtained. As it is we are in many

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COUNT RAOUSSET-BOULBON. 707

cases obliged to content ourselves with the meagre accounts that yet
survive time's Lethean touch.
In the early days of the great gold excitement, there arrived in
San Francisco a young, handsome and distinguished looking French-
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COUNT RAOUSSET-BOULBON.

man, who was known amongst his acquaintances as the Count Raous-
set de Boulbon. His bearing was noble and but few doubted his
claim to the title of Count. He admitted that he was poor and did
not think that the avowal was at all discreditable. He had come to

708 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS.

California to gain money—would he leave fair France for any
other object? he asked with a shrug of his shoulders that would
anywhere have proclaimed his nationality. He was willing to
turn his hand to anything to obtain money;—if he could barber,
well- if he could black boots, still well; the gold would wash off the
stains of the labor and with the wealth thus acquired he could buy back
his ancestral home in Gascony. This was the province of his birth;
this sunny land of vines and flowers that has furnished to our lan-
guage a term for braggadocio and to the world so many of her
adventurers and soldiers of Fortune.
When the whole of Europe was one immense battle-ground, to be
a Gascon was to be a boaster, but unlike the braggart of other na-

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