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Brunson's men were marching along, shivering in the cold for it was a dark, cloudy morning late in October, 1838 we saw a company of horsemen some three miles away. We concluded they were Missourians, and made for them at full speed. They halted and appeared willing to fight.
T. Flint's History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley ; J. Hall's Letters from the West and Statistics of the West ; early numbers of the American Almanacs; Peter Cartwright's The Backwoods Preacher ; Alfred Brunson's A Western Pioneer ; and the various denominational histories supply the needful social background for an understanding of the West.
His tutor was thus almost more proud of him for having failed than if he had succeeded, and Sixth Form in general accepted Brunson's success apologetically as that of an "all-round" man, whose triumph did not mean so much.
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