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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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the scalps of your women and children; 'our wives and daughters
for outrage, and your strong men for " the hellish agonies of the
stake."
Stirred by the speeches of Clarke, as the war-horse by the shrill
notes of the bugle, the Kentuckians swore to follow him to death.
Delighted to see that his own spirit so animated these men, Clarke
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FATHER GEBAULT.

wrote fully to the Governor of Virginia, detailing his plans for the
accomplishment of his aims, and requesting what aid they might be
able to send. Securing this aid, the expedition was speedily organized
at Louisville, then known as the Falls of the Ohio, and started down
the river in boats. Meeting a party of hunters at the mouth of the
Tennessee River, Clarke learned from them that the garrisons at

162 CONQUERING THE WILDERNESS.

Kaskaskia and Kahokia were on the alert, expecting a visit from the
Kentuckians, but he also learned that the larger portion of the
French would prefer American rule to British.
Taking these men along as guides, they reached and entirely sur-
prised Kaskaskia, taking it without the shedding of a drop of blood,
and so winning upon the favor of the inhabitants by a judiciou
smixture of kindness and severity that some of the citizens accom-
panied them in their capture of Kahokia, (just opposite St. Louis).
Making a firm adherent of the parish priest, M. Gebault, Clarke'

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