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ADVENTURE ON THE MISSOURI.
THE MUSEUM OF PERILOUS ADVENTURES AND DARING EXPLOITS; BEING A RECORD OF THRILLING NARRATIVES HEROIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND HAZARDOUS ENTERPRISES, INTERSPERSED WITH NUMEROUS ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST SINGULAR AND ENTERTAINING FACTS, FOUND IN HISTORY; AND EMBRACING A MOST CURIOUS AND INTERESTING VARIETY OF VALUABLE READING, FOR ALL CLASSES, PREPARED FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS, AND EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS AND DIVERSIPIED COLORED ENGRAVINGS.
NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY G. & F. BILL.
1858.ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, BY G. & F. BILL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED BY SMITH AND VALENTINE.
PREFACE.
EVERY person, whether of highly cultivated talents, or of ordinary acquirements, can be amused and entertained by the kind of reading which this book will place before him; and it is with a view to furnish recreation for the leisure of all classes of intelligent readers, that the publisher undertakes the work.
The object of the compiler has been to embody, in a popular form, a well chosen selection of those treasured incidents of noble greatness, daring enterprise, and fearless intrepidity, which adorn the page of history, and exhibit the strong traits of human character, worthy of being imitated or avoided.
It was a custom of the ancients, to keep continually before the minds of the young, the biographies of distinguished men, and to make them familiar with the incidents of virtuous and heroic achievement; and most of those great men whose actions have stamped them on the page of history, as the heroes and lawgivers of their time, have owed their celebrity to the impulse thus given to their youthful genius.
With the belief that there is emphatically a call for such a work, the publisher has made every endeavor to bring before the public a book adapted to so laudable a purpose page: 6-7 (Table of Contents) [View Page 6-7 (Table of Contents) ] pose, and he confidently hopes it will be found worthy of patronage. The articles composing this work have been compiled from a large mass of materials, replete with wonderful and intense interest, and selected with a particular care and discrimination.
For the most part, the selections are confined to known facts; though, in some cases, articles are adopted particularly on account of their interest, while their authenticity may not be so clear.
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DEATH OF MIRACHA.
CONTENTS.
- Tiger's Cave, 11
- Attempt to take Arnold, 17
- The Wild Turkey, 24
- The Fire Ship, 29
- Trial for Murder, 32
- Incidents in the Battle of Lake Erie, 46
- The black Assassin, 50
- Adventure of a Kentucky Settler, 55
- Mutiny at Sea, 61
- The dead alive, 66
- The Backwoods of America, 72
- Capture of Ticonderoga, 78
- Mysterious interposition of Providence, 81
- Girl rescued from an Indian, 85
- Capture and Escape of General Wadsworth, 90
- State Prison Revolt, 115
- The Shark Sentinel, 122
- Justice against Law, 124
- Horrid Punishment, 126
- Joe Call, the Modern Hercules, 128
- Massacre of Major Dade's Detachment, 133
- Chamberlain and Paugus, 139
- The Resolute Lover, 143
- Poet and two Indians, 148
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- Story of a Hunter, 153
- Ascending Mount Blanc, 158
- Shipwreck, Suffering, and Murder, 163
- Foolish Fright, 169
- Yates and Downing, 173
- Thrilling Sketch, 177
- Remarkable Spectral Illusion, 182
- The Prairie, 185
- Buried Alive, 191
- Extraordinary Achievement, 195
- The Trysting Tree, 200
- Revenge and Assassination in a Church, 201
- The Ill-fated Steamer Ben Sherrod, 205
- General Arnold and the Spy, 213
- Highland Honor, 216
- One White Man to two Indians, 219
- Destruction of a Pirate Ship, 223
- A Tragedy in Real Life, 228
- Retribution, 234
- Execution in the Harem, 237
- The Panther Hunter, 242
- Female Heroism Exemplified, 245
- Loss of the Mexico, 249
- Loss of the Steamer Pulaski, 255
- Courtship on a Fragment of the Pulaski, 267
- The Escape, 270
- Caspar Karlinski, 277
- Calum Dhu, 279
- The hardest fend-off—or, the Bear and the Alligator, 286
- Frightful Adventure with a Tiger, 291
- Battle Ground of Tippecanoe, 296
- Unparalleled Bravery of a Woman, 300
- Remarkable Presence of Mind, 302
- The Duchess Caroline of Wurtemberg, 306
- The Tiger—or, Life in a Jungle, 315
- The Midnight Revel, 319
- Female Intrepidity, 322
- Heroism of Madame Lavergne, 324
- The Buried Alive, 328
- Combat with a Bull, 331
- The Young Warriors, 336
- St. Mary's Spire, Manchester, 341
- Mutiny at Sea, 342
- The Deserters, 349
- The Sky Leapers, 352
- Traits of Waterloo, 360
- Adventure in the Mammoth Cave, 363
- Singular Escape from Death, 364
- Escape from a Lion, 366
- Remarkable Self-Possession, 369
- Stonington Heroism, 373
- The Irish Magistrate, 380
- An Adventure, 384
- The Lion, 387
- A Perilous Situation, 392
- An Adventure with a Cobra de Capella, 396
- Elephant Hunting, 398
- Putnam Outdone, 403
- The Generous Cavalier, 407
- Fight between a Tiger and an Elephant, 411
- Intrepidity of an American Officer, 415
- Adventure with the Indians, 416
- Poisoning in the Seventeenth Century, 423
- Hannah Lamond and the Eagle, 431
- Iroquois Boy, 436
- Dreadful Mystery, 443
- The Raid of Cillechrist, 445
- Ingenuity of Sir Matthew Hale, 451
- Lion Hunt of the Malay Station, 455
- The Man in the Bell, 457
- The Madman, 463
- Skill in Archery, 468
- Charles Hess, 472
- The Capture of the Frigate President, 478
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- Wonderful Preservation, 484
- Bear Hunting in Maine, 492
- Washington and the Horse, 495
- A Modern Brutus, 499
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ANCIENT AMUSEMENTS.
