PILOTS OF THE REPUBLIC
THE ROMANCE OF THE PIONEER
PROMOTER IN THE MIDDLE WEST
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
THE GLORY SEEKERS: The Romance ofWould-be Founders of Empire in the EarlyDays of the Great Southwest. By WilliamHorace Brown. With sixteen portraits, andillustrative initials to chapters.
12mo. $1.50 net
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PILOTS OF THE REPUBLIC
THE ROMANCE OF THE PIONEER PROMOTER
IN THE MIDDLE WEST
BY
ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT
Author of "Historic Highways of America," "Washington and the West," etc.
WITH SIXTEEN PORTRAITS, AND ILLUSTRATIVE INITIALS
BY WALTER J. ENRIGHT
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1906
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1906
Published October 29, 1906
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
To
CHARLES G. DAWES, Esq.
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
IN TOKEN OF THE AUTHOR'S APPRECIATION OF
A MODERN PROMOTER
WHOSE IDEALS AND CHIVALRY TAKE RANK
WITH THOSE OF THE OLDEN TIME
PREFACE
The student ofEuropean history is not surprisedto find that individuals stand out prominentlyin every activity that occupied man's attention;that even though there be under consideration great popularmovements, such as the Crusades or the Reformationor French Revolution, attention centres around significantpersonalities. In the day of monarchies and despotisms,individual initiative very naturally led the way in outliningpolicies, selecting lieutenants, finding ways andmeans.
It is singular to what a great extent this is true in thehistory of democratic America, preëminently the landwhere the people have ruled and where the usurper ofpower has had, comparatively, no opportunity whatever.And yet it is not too much to say that the history of ournation may be suggested in a skeleton way by a mere listof names, as, for instance, the history of the fourteenthcentury in Europe might easily be sketched. While weare proud to proclaim that America has given all men anequal opportunity, that the most humble may rise to theproudest position known among us, it yet remains singular[Pg x]that in this land where the po