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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edial measures werethose of the superstitious in all ages, the howling incantations ofmagicians and medicine-men. In addition to these causes of decrease, we find that the bow andarrow were their sole missile weapons, and thus their wars of anymagnitude must have invariably been settled by the club and stonebattle-axe, and any reader of history knows how bloody and bitterhas ever been the warfare of nations fighting in hand-to-hand com-bat. If it were necessary to offer justification for the establishment ofcivilization at the cost of a war, in which moral has triumphed overphysical force, and enlightenment over barbarism, a thousand ex-cuses strong and valid stand ready to the mind of the moralist, asthe following facts prove. In spite of the beautifully drawn andcharmingly colored word pictures of Cooper and other novelists, weknow that the Indian, with but rare exceptions, was singularly de-void of any traits of humanity and magnanimity, and thoroughly 48 CONQUERIXG THE WILDEENESS,
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HARDY HEROES. 49 imbued with the passion for war and bloodshed. We find him justwhat we have every reason to expect of a brutal savage, a mur-dering marauder, and a truer Ishmaelite, than he of the Africandeserts, his hand against every man. The Apache of our Southwestern border and of Old Mexico doesnot differ in anything, save language and habitat, from the Leni-Lenape of the Atlantic Coast. A chasm of a hundred years liesbetween the warfare of the one and that of the other, and yet ithas changed in nothing, gained in nothing. As in the day of thepilgrim, the wretched captive is subjected to all the tortures that afiendish ingenuity can invent, and a brutal nature carry out. Join-ing to the ferocity of the tiger, the cunning of the fox, his warfareis not the open combat of the Caucasian, but the midnight attackwith all of its attendant horrors of robbery, rapine and murder.Lacking the unyielding nerve and the indomitable courage of thesuperior race, he depends invariably on the sudd

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