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Title: Wild Western Scenes
A Narrative Of Adventures In The Western Wilderness, Wherein The
Exploits Of Daniel Boone, The Great American Pioneer Are Particularly
Described

Author: John Beauchamp Jones

Release Date: August 1, 2004 [EBook #13077]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "I saw him gasp, reel, and fall."]

[Illustration: Wild Western Scenes]

WILD WESTERN SCENES:

A NARRATIVE
OF
ADVENTURES IN THE WESTERN WILDERNESS,

WHEREIN

THE EXPLOITS OF DANIEL BOONE, THE GREAT AMERICAN PIONEER ARE
PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED

ALSO,

ACCOUNTS OF BEAR, DEER, AND BUFFALO HUNTS--DESPERATE CONFLICTS WITH
THE SAVAGES--WOLF HUNTS--FISHING AND FOWLING ADVENTURES--ENCOUNTERS
WITH SERPENTS, ETC.

New Stereotype Edition, Altered, Revised, and Corrected

By J.B. JONES.

Author of "The War Path," "Adventures of a Country Merchant," etc.

Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings from Original Designs

Philadelphia:
J.B. Lippincott & Co.

1875

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by J.B. Jones,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.

Stereotyped By L. Johnson & Co.,
Philadelphia.

PREFACE.

When a work of fiction has reached its fortieth edition, one would
suppose the author might congratulate himself upon having contributed
something of an imperishable character to the literature of the
country. But no such pretensions are asserted for this production, now
in its fortieth thousand. Being the first essay of an impetuous youth
in a field where giants even have not always successfully contended,
it would be a rash assumption to suppose it could receive from those
who confer such honors any high award of merit. It has been before the
public some fifteen years, and has never been reviewed. Perhaps the
forbearance of those who wield the cerebral scalpels may not be
further