THE PKArKIES. 



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claim to be lords of tlie soil, have been driven back into the 

 uiore remote wilderness, or compelled to succumb to the 







INDIANS ATTACKING AN EMIGRANT TRAIN. 



superior power of the invader, in many instances being utterly 

 exterminated. Still, north and south of that iron line the 

 country resembles a desert ; and the wild Indian roams as of 

 yore, Hke the Arab of the East — his hand against every man, 

 and every man's hand against him. 



