Product Description
This volume of twenty-two large chapters was published in
1888 and covers the lives and famous exploits of hero ex-
plorers, renowned frontier fighters, and celebrated early
settlers of America, from the earliest times to the present
(1888).

Some heroes covered are: Daniel Boone, Sam Houston, Wild Bill,
Buffalo Bill, George Custer, Captain John Smith, Miles Standish,
Davey Crockett, Lewis and Clarke and Ferdinand de Soto
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From the book's Preface:

Many are the books that give in interesting detail the adventures
of a single or a few heroes, or of a restricted region of the
American frontiers.But it has been the conception of this
volume to present a broad view, embracing the more celebrated
episodes of the life led by the most noted pioneer explorers,
early settlers and brave soldiers who have won distinction in
border warfare.It is surely a worthy task to gather, in a
natural, chronological succession, records of those thrilling
exploits, the recitals of which, oft repeated, have secured
their heroes immortality.

If it be objectd that many of these worthies seemed to lack a
sufficient respect for the sacredness of human life, their sur-
roundings should be remembered.If they were apparently too
ready with the knife or the trigger, it may because their own
lives were felt to be held cheaply by many about them who were
unrestrainable by law.

At least we have glorified no gory outlaws, nor have we painted
in alluring colors the road to the penitentiary or the scaffold.

The chain is nearly complete; not entirely, for it was not designed
to make a set history of all border events of interest.The chief
aim has been to display the differing phases of the same long
battle on the frontieers, fromm decade to decade, through
centuries, as the Indian races were gradually pushed back by
the march of the oncroaching white race, till it enveloped them
on all sides.It is impossible to give, in a single volume, or, indeed,
in a small library, the lives of all Americans who have met with
remarkable and thrilling adventures with either brute or human
aborigines.But it is believed that the most typical character
of each strongly marked period has been selected; and while
it is also impracticable to include all the stories relating to such
men, it is thought that those incidents most characteristic of a
man and his times, and possessing the most interest to the
reader, have been chosen.

So many different volumes have been consulted, that to refer
each statement to the authority upon which it is based would
needlessly encumber the book.When the original possesses
special interest, as in the case of Boone's Autobiography, or
Crockett's Diary in the Alamo, it is specially quoted.

D. M. Kelsey









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This book tells of the lives of several famous men who had a large part in exploring and opening the American wild west in the late 1700's and most of the 1800's. Such men as Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clarke, Davey Crockett, Buffalo Bill, and Wild Bill Hickok. Their lives, their life and death fights, and how some got their nicknames.

In battles in the East with the French and Indians, to fights with the Seminole Indians of Florida, to battles with Santa Anna at the Alamo and then on out west with Comanches, Black Feet, and Apaches, these men became American Heroes.

So with these heroes of the plains. Irresistibly drawn on by that strange, magnetic call of the wild, they searched for their El Dorados, and brought back truth. They returned with tales of a glorious, unpeopled country; of herds of game; strange tribes of red-skinned people; of clear rivers, and sage-covered wastes of alkali. And these tales--stirring the imaginations of
their fellows--led to that great, sweeping emigration of the white pioneers to the land of the setting sun. These men were, perhaps, of uncouth manners and untutored brains; but they
made history.

In the far West it was no uncommon sight to meet the pioneer with his wife, his herds and his family, as they push into the unsettled wastes, always in search of "something better than they left behind."

These men were often restless, roving blades. They continually looked into the beyond; if they did not do so, they were not satisfied with the quiet life, but had to be in the maelstrom of action. The perpetual boy was in them. ... Read more

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1924. In this volume we read of Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Davy Crockett, and of George Rogers Clark. We follow the trail of Lewis and Clark as they made their laborious way west to the Pacific. These men were followed by such men as Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody and Custer. The story of these men is the story of the West, the story of the nation. These are but some of the Great American Scouts. In writing of them we only propose to detail the matter-of-fact tale of what they did. We must always remember that the men went into unknown wilds and made it possible for civilization to follow them. They met adventure coldly, methodically, and as part of their daily duty. In all our thoughts of them, we see romance; we see their boldness and courage, for we have imagination and can picture the lives they must have led! ... Read more

Product Description
1924. In this volume we read of Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Davy Crockett, and of George Rogers Clark. We follow the trail of Lewis and Clark as they made their laborious way west to the Pacific. These men were followed by such men as Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody and Custer. The story of these men is the story of the West, the story of the nation. These are but some of the Great American Scouts. In writing of them we only propose to detail the matter-of-fact tale of what they did. We must always remember that the men went into unknown wilds and made it possible for civilization to follow them. They met adventure coldly, methodically, and as part of their daily duty. In all our thoughts of them, we see romance; we see their boldness and courage, for we have imagination and can picture the lives they must have led! ... Read more

Product Description
1924. In this volume we read of Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Davy Crockett, and of George Rogers Clark. We follow the trail of Lewis and Clark as they made their laborious way west to the Pacific. These men were followed by such men as Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody and Custer. The story of these men is the story of the West, the story of the nation. These are but some of the Great American Scouts. In writing of them we only propose to detail the matter-of-fact tale of what they did. We must always remember that the men went into unknown wilds and made it possible for civilization to follow them. They met adventure coldly, methodically, and as part of their daily duty. In all our thoughts of them, we see romance; we see their boldness and courage, for we have imagination and can picture the lives they must have led! ... Read more