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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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r, who, he said, was endearedto him by the ties of a friendship as close as those of brotherhood.They had hunted together by day and shared the same blanket atnight; the wigwam of the one was the dwelling place of the other,and their jojs and sorrows had been in common. Together they had roamed the forests like brothers, and upon thewar-path they had marched side by side; neither had known a dan-ger that the other had not shared, and now he begged them, if hisservices had been of any value to them, not to refuse him the life ofthis the only captive he had ever asked of them. They knew, saidhe, that he was true to their cause, and his hands were as deeply 127 CONQUERING THE AVILDEENESS. dyed in the blood of the hated whites as those of any warrioramongst them, and now. after years of faithful service, would theyrefuse him the only favor he had ever asked, and force him to lookupon the fierce torture and terrible agony of his comrade, donecruelly to death by them, his adopted brothers ?
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At the end of his speech, which was full of the figures that strike theimagination of the red man, he saw that he had made an impressionupon several of the chiefs, while others evidently did not favor hisrequest. A young warrior, rising to reply, said that the fate of the FREAKS OF FORTUNE. 129 prisoner had been settled in a full and solemn council, and that theywould be deemed squaws could they be thus influenced to change theirminds every hour. For his part he was sorry that it happened to be the friend oftheir comrade, Girty; he would have preferred it to be some strangerto him, but that all of their people had set their hearts on seeing thiswhite man burn, and what a disappointment—if not an absolute cruelty—it would be to discommode so many people for the sake of one, or atmost two, even if the prisoner had any feeling in the matter, thoughfor his part he rather believed, from the white mans actions, thathe courted such an honor as a fiery death at the hands of their bravewar

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