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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ed—will nexev he known, but it is certain that Boone andeight of his bravest men went out of the fort to a distance of sixtyyards to treat with the savages, as if that treaty could not as wellhave been performed inside or under the walls. At the conclusionof this attempt, each of the white men was persuaded to shake handswith two of the Indians, according to a pretended custom of theirs. Going even to this extent of folly, no sooner had two brawnysavages seized the hands of each white man, than the others beganmoving around, endeavorino; to ffet between Boone and the fort.At last awakened to the peril of their situation, they succeeded inshaking off the swarming savages, and by a rapid dash reached the bo 8(5 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS. shelter of the fort, under a shower of savage bullets, without havinglost a man; but one of them having been wounded. Seeing their shallow artifice detected, the Indians now threw offthe mask and poured a general and protracted fire into the garrison.
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BOONES FIGHT OVEK THE BODY OF HIS SON AT BLUE LICKS. This was returned with a rapidity and precision that speedily forcedthe savages to cover, and not daring to attempt to storm the defenses,they resorted to a stratagem, doubtless the inspiration ofDuquesne. THE LAST SIFAJE OF HOONSBOHOUOlI. 87 They began a tunnel in the river bank, intending to mine thefort, but the discok)red Avater warned Boone of the attem^jt, and hebegan a counter-mine. The dirt thrown over tiie Avails shoAved thattheir design Avas knoAvn, and the savages, having exhausted everyartifice familiar to them, broke up their siege on the ninth day, toescape the deadly aim of the white mens rifles. Their loss Avas thirtA-scA^en killed and a large number Avounded,AAhile of the besieged but tAvo Averc killed and four Avounded. Boonesays they gathered up one hundred and tAventy-five pounds Aveightof bullets, not counting those lodged in the walls of the fort! Thus, for the last time, did the storm of Indian Avarfare break

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