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men who serve their country as pioneers in her western 
wilds, it should be added that even among these iron- 
hearted travellers, some wandered away from the camp 
in a state of mental derangement induced by suffering, 
plunged into the torrents, or wandered into forests. 
Well might Colonel Fremont say that “the times were 
hard when sto.ut men lost their minds from extremity of 
suffering—when horses died—and when mules and 
horses, ready to die of starvation, were killed for food/’ 
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