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02365nam a2200313L 4500 001 EB48FD7E2ACC11DE8802FF04A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20100629010153 008 070302s1883 nyuac 000 0 eng 010 $a 06009052 035 $a (OCoLC)166502427 040 $a DLC $c CGAVW $d SILO $d SILO 100 1 $a Triplett, Frank. 245 1 $a Conquering the wilderness : $b 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 marvelous adventures of Boone, Kenton, Clarke, Logan, Herrod, the Wetzel brothers, the Bradys, Poe, and other celebrated frontiersmen and Indian fighters; Crockett, Houston, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, and all the famous plainsmen; Graham, Sutter, Marshall, Fremont, Kearney, and other historic names of the Pacific Coast. With picturesque sketches of border life, past and present; backwoods camp-meetings, schools, Sunday schools, heroic fortitude and noble deeds of the pioneer wives and mothers. Flatboating; the overland route and its horrors; the gold fever and filibustering expeditions, vigilance committees, Lafitte, Walker, Brigham Young, etc., eccentricities and self-sacrificing labors of Cartwright, Axley, and other celebrated pioneer preachers, and describing life and adventure on the plains and in the mining camps of to-day, including hunting, trapping, freighting, ranching, herding, posttrading, Indian agencies, scouts, guides and desperados; immense fortunes of western millinaires, how made, etc. / $c by Colonel Frank Triplett. 246 3 $a New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America ... 246 3 $a Pioneer heroes and heroines 260 $a St. Louis : $b N. D. Thompson & Company, $c 1883. 300 $a 742 p. : $b ill., ports. ; $c 24 cm. 505 0 $a pt. 1. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi -- pt. 2. The plains -- pt. 3. The Pacific slope. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x Wars. 650 0 $a Indian captivities. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life. 650 0 $a Pioneers. 941 $a 3 952 $l F3OX522 $d 20180524025644.0 952 $l E7OX522 $d 20180524012430.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB48FD7E2ACC11DE8802FF04A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b HDMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search