Show Fifty Famous Frontiersmen By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N WM N y W The Founder of Nashville ACIl one should do what E seems to him his duty As for m my t 1 Is here and her here I 1 stay If e eer esery er Ulan man of ou deserts hIe So spoke James Robertson on lender leader of the pioneer colon colony V that had settled on the Cumberland fl riser fler er In l 1 on Christmas clay 1779 1770 there 1 here had been men m in the colony nt at first OrM but with Ith 1250 In within 60 days clays 39 hid fallen under the tomahawks Is or of the Cherokees n a few mote mor e months 67 07 others had per fished Crops had failed and start loomed Some of the Settlers began to leatie and fin lIv only 1 4 or of the were e let left They tried to get Rob Hob Robertson ertson to abandon his post and the abo e a was his uns er It was us characteristic of this ScotCh IrIshman from VirgInia who hall had set tied In orth C In liGO 1750 Th l I had carried him across the mountains wIth Daniel Damel Loone In lj- lj and had brought him l Ill after ter t Ible hardships to North Carolina to toled lend le a p ll t of settlers Into the Watauga region and liter still farther west est rl 1 he emigration of Robertson s se e tIers from the to the flanks of the Cumberland In central Tennes Tennessee Tennessee see Is one of the epics s of the frontier After n all he hid ed to plant that settlement there he was 8 not going to git gh e a up so easily e So wIth his eld elder son Con and t two 0 other compa companions lons Rob Hob Robertson ertson m de his wa way to where Daniel Damel Boone lent him powder PO and leid He soon had need for It it for 1000 hostile Cherokees herol swept S down upon the fort nt at Nash Inc ille Then It ItUS was US that Robertson proved pro herself n a worthy northy mate of the stout hell he'll heated teel pIOneer In n then theft attempt to capture the horses of the whites the left a gip 11 in theIr lacks Mrs Hobel Mlle tn is hind ml and crouched to m a look 1001 out tower of the fort seeing the stampede of the horses and the brell In the Indigo line shouted to th Open tit th gates tes and set sel the do dogs g on em i Ls As the s drew their tomal to fight off the clots do s the settlers fled to safety whereupon Ch Hee es Robertson uttEred her thinks to G God who gage ga to the In a of dogs and n a love lore of horses 1 There here were n a few fc more 3 errs of In fighting and then pence came to Tennessee With It came me honors to James Robertson W made him brIgadier genel 11 and he was In IndIan n dIan commissioner until iris d He HedreG dreG diet In 1814 but he ht 11 ed to see the colony whIch he had h founded grow In Into into to a e commom and enter the sisterhood sl tei hood of stat e r The Emperor of the West Indians Ds he was 11 kite hIte To six feet twi inches tall with a constItution of iron and heir lIr of pure white lute n a of mft ihle courage hand Gand To the white III te men of his 1115 tune he was the tho Emperor of the West Vest a n wilderness king rn who ho ruled 0 cr S Jre miles nn an empire which extended from to Alaska and nd from tune the Great Silt Illo to To tol lie he Is s the i I 1 ther of Ore Ore- Oregon Oregon gon mote mOl e truly titan is nm an other man who may y he be giten gh en that title 10 tae shame of two who ho owl O him much he In his declining ears rs E n a Min n I n a Country All these Di 01 John ILou McLoughlin Like other oilier mO of the empIre of fut rUl Kenneth l who ho ruled at tort rort UnIOn In Montana l lei Mc ho hn was n a n who first firt sent 1 the line Hudsons Hudson's n B ty lY In 1824 1524 lie he hens was ns appointed chief factor for or the theIL H IL n B C m in the Columbia rater distri t of the Pacific North Northwest est Abandoning I Astoria which had come Into posses posse possession sion of the II 11 B C yia It the et I Ision McLoughlin built tort rort Van coiner f up the riser comer Here begin bem Ills his 1 stile ule 0 cr hiS vast rust empire He not cle de eloped tune fur trade but lie he also I the de of the Pacific est lIe ruled his sub subI subjects subjects t I both white hUe and 1 red e with I ness Dess and wd Justice and they In loin n toted 10 and 1 respected el John or orI WhIte Engle I 1 Zhen hen American u settlers benn to drift Into the Ore Oregon on country lore than one forlorn American n fur tradel and mote mOl c than one hollow hollo e eted eed ed settler gaunt glUnt from flom found n a gener ener Otis ons host In the Scotch and it reliable SOUl source ce of supply while hUe they were et e l C n a home from the ness As an employee ee of the it 11 iJ C Che Che he should of course COUlse h lime he e C the country this mh nce guard of American settlement But ut he didn't So when the Hudsons Hudson's nil Bay conic learned what wh he w as doln doing the Lot of the Wet West was 15 quickly il lIe was us not et C Cen en recognized as a Lutish subject b the o of his Jus fellow Nate than th tar It itlie lie was as Impo et b bIus b his Ius loins to the settlers who failed to 1 ep 1 In he tried to become in Amerlean Amer lean fean coven But petty souls who coup not forget fOlget th It he had once ruled thI thin blocked for n a Dr British lUsh company compall him confirm hb hl Congress failed to title to I hinds neat nem Oregon 01 egon CIty Ore e he wished to retire In his old age and than chun jumpers tool took them away n his lien dents I from him I s after 1 ise e Cli la In 1857 the Ie e thOse lands to hIS he heirs rs nut But It n was ns s too late to Sl c the be beloyed 11 ell Scot h actor from dying a broken lieu te ted old man a 11 0 t cot i 0 1933 1033 western r |