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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siege of Granada. A mining expert, named Byron Cole, was travel-
ing through Central America looking for mines for an American
company. He had known Walker in San Francisco and knew of
his desperate attempt to filibuster Lower California and Sonora in
the autumn of 1853.
He had heard Walker talk of the golden empire he intended to
found in some of the Spanish-American States and had himself
become an enthusiast on the subject. He had heard of Walker's
heroic attempt already alluded to and felt that he was destined to
achieve a glorious name and this, he thought, would be an opportune
opening for him. The raid on Sonora had failed, it was true, but

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that was inevitable from the first. Leaving San Francisco in a light
schooner, with some fifty followers, Walker landed at a small port
on the Pacific Coast of Lower California. Here he met with a feeble
resistance and marching into the interior, he invaded Sonora and
presented the singular spectacle of an invasion failing for the want
of foes.
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COLONEL BYRON COLE.

Pressing on through sparsely settled valleys and inhospitable
deserts, he was conquered by the desolation everywhere prevalent.
Without supplies of food and unable to find subsistence in the
countrv, his followers soon become a ragged and worn out lot of
half-starved specters who had easily brushed away every one of ther

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outnumbering foes, but were unable to contend against the the first and
famine of the desert and at last, with starved and wasted forms,
shoeless and nearly naked, their feet lacerated with the sharp rocks
and their hands mangled with thorns and cacti, they staggereed across
the frontier of Sonora into the golden State, sweeping from their
pathway at one wild, reckless charge three hundred Mexican cav-
alry Avho had been sent to intercept them. They were ragged, worn,
starved, parched with tropic heat and burning fever, but they had
the courage of their pioneer sires that never wavered, and stagger-
ing onward against the fresh troops of the Mexicans, six times their

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