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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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however desperate, that served to perpetuate
his power, or augment his wealth and influence.
As an individual, he was coarse and beastly; a sensualist, a hypo-
crite, and a tyrant. His rule was founded in theft and trickery, and
perpetuated by fraud and violence. In the course of an unusually
long life, he was never known to do a generous or unselfish action,
and it is safe to say that he did not possess a single disinterested
friend; being incapable of knowing, or inspiring such a feeling as
true friendship.
If we search history for his prototypes, we find him a mixture of
Mokanna, the veiled prophet of Kohrassan, and that terrible chief
of the assassins, the Old Man of the Mountain. No danger could
bend him from his purpose; no crime appalled him, and no treach-
ery dismayed. Without a single virtue, he died as he had lived the

536 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS.

victim of his appetites; his fatal illness being brought on by eating
an enormous mess of green corn and half-ripe peaches. So perished
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BRIGHAM YOUNG, THE APOSTLE OF LUST AND MURDER.

this prophet of treachery and assassination; this apostle of fraud
and lust.

CHAPTER XXIV.
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BUFFALO BILL.

HIS BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD—HIS CHARACTER—CLASSED WITH
BILL—CHARACTER OF THE LATTER—A COWARD AND A MURDERER
—HIS QUARREL WITH BILL THOMPSON—BIOGRAPHICAL LIES—A
PLUCKED GAMBLER—ADVENTURE AT JUNCTION CITY—WHIPPED BY
A CARPENTER—HIS DEATH—CODY LEAVES IOWA—HIS LIFE IN MIS-
SOURI—MOVES TO KANSAS—WITH RUSSELL, THE FREIGHTER—ACTS
AS HERDER—ON THE PLAINS—KILLS AN INDIAN—GOES TO UTAH—
TRAIN CAPTURED BY INDIANS—WINTERS AT FORT BRIDGER—
SUFFERINGS—RETURNS TO THE STATES—SURROUNDED BY SAVAGES
—THE THREE HEROES—RESCUED—TRIES TRAPPING—A BROKEN
LEG—IMMINENT DANGERS—SAVED—RIDKS PONY EXPRESS—THE
CIVIL WAR—CHANDLER'S HORSE THIEVES—THE RED LEG—DEATH
OF HIS MOTHER—TAKES TO DRINK—VOLUNTEERS—SERVICES—
MARRIES—KEEPS HOTEL—BECOMES A SCOUT.

William Frederick Cody was born in the spring of 1845, in Scott
County, Iowa, and although he can, in nothing, be classed with the

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