Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States

Of evil company, there was, unhappily, but too much; for the settlement was cursed with a band of desperadoes, exiles from organized society, who had sought the frontier to obta...

The regulators hastily dug a grave on the bank of the creek, and in the silence of the night placed Cutler within it. Then, taking possession of the stolen money, they released...

To this class belonged the large majority of the _voyageur_ priests: men who might be inconvenient and obtrusive monitors, or formidable adversaries in controversy, if they rema...

Upon the road, you first meet the pioneer himself, for he almost always walks a few hundred yards ahead. He is usually above the medium height, and rather spare. He stoops a lit...

But having, in the article "Pioneer," sufficiently elaborated the _character_--for the regulator was of course a pioneer also--we can best illustrate the mode of his action by a...

The "travelling merchants" of this country were generally what their customers called "Yankees"--that is, New-Englanders, or descendants of the puritans, whether born east of th...

This was the limit of their voyage. Here they ascertained, beyond a doubt, that the Mississippi flowed into the gulf of Mexico, and not, as had been conjectured, into the great...

His courage, then, was not ignorance of danger--not that of the child, which thrusts its hand within the lion's jaws, and knows naught of the penalty it braves. His ear was ever...

Corrupt manners and degrading customs never exist, in conjunction with a pure religious system. The outlines of social institutions are metaphysically coincident with the limits...

But the love of peace was not accompanied, in this character, as it usually is, by merciful judgment, for, as he was very swift in determining a prisoner's guilt, he was equally...

[48] "The Cherokee and Mobilian families of nations are more numerous now than ever."--_Bancroft_, vol. iii., p. 253. In speaking of this declamation about the extinction of the...

Nature does no superfluous work, and it may require the same causes which produce the storm to organize its Ruler. If a great rebellion is boiling among men, the mingling of the...

The personal advantages which he believed made him so dangerous to the peace of woman, were counteracted, thus, by his saintly piety. For--as it became him to be, both in the ch...

"Nothing but that," answered Grayson, decidedly; "and if you don't give it to me, when your regulator friends arrive, instead of me, they will find you, swinging from this beam...

They were almost all what western people call "Yankees"--born and bred east of the Hudson: descendants of the sturdy puritans--and distinguished by the peculiarities of that str...

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In elaborating the character of the pioneer, we have unavoidably anticipated, in some measure, that of the Ranger--for the latter was, in fact, only one of the capacities in whi...

But though thus rigid and austere, I never heard that she was at all disinclined to being courted: especially if it gave her any prospect of being able to make herself useful as...

Sympathy for what are called the Indian's misfortunes, has, also, induced the class of writers, from whom, almost exclusively, our notions of his character are derived, to repre...

How measureless we thought the politician's greatness then! This was his proper element--here he was at home; and, as he ordered and directed everything about him, flourishing h...

"Under the modest guise of the biography of an imaginary 'Lorenzo Benoni,' we have here, in fact, the memoir of a man whose name could not be pronounced in certain parts of nort...