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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that which he had received from his cowardly captors. By this
manly course he won the admiration of all; both friend and foe.
In the autumn of 1814 the revolutionists, who were fighting to
free their country from the Spanish yoke, sent Bean to the United
States to intercede for aid and recognition from the American
Republic. At Nautla, Bean found one of the pirate Lafitte's ships,
the Tiger, under command of Captain Dominic, and sailed in her
to Barataria. It was at this place that Bean first heard of the war
between England and the United States, and he and Lafitte deter-
mined to visit General Jackson, who was then at New Orleans.
The coast being blockaded by the British, the two daring men pene-
trated through the swamps, bayous and lagoons and thus made their
way to the headquarters of " 01d Hickory."

ELLIS P. BEAN AND OTHERS. 733

The old hero knew Bean well and favorably and he was at once
placed in charge of a battery, and to the pirate a command was
also assigned, and in the great and eventful battle that soon fol-
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JEAN LAFITTE—THE PIRATE.

lowed, both acted gallant parts. The noble looking Lafitte, a man
of desperate valor, almost wiped away the stain which his piracy Dad
left upon his name and Bean, of course, proved himself worthy of

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il; his former deeds. Owing to the troubled condition of affairs in
the States, Bean was forced to return without meeting with the suc-
cess he had hoped for. Sailing for his adopted country in another
of Lafitte's vessels, he returned the following year, accompanied by
the patriotic Herrara.
In 1818 Bean visited his parents in Tennessee and lingered some
time at his boyhood's home. Still restless, he next went to

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