Show Fifty Famous Frontiersmen By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ye w W M MOne One of the Long Hunters SIGNED Ills hus name Kasper H er but you It 11 find him re ref ref f to In frontier history as Cas Cas CasPer Per ler M AI 1 0 as Gasper and as l Rut But ever the spelling of his name the fact remains HIl that this German American C Cho who ho was HIS probably born n In sonic some Dutch settlement In the century was one of the greatest hunters and fight fight- fighters fighters ers In nil all border history lie He spoke only broken hut but th voice of hIs long rifle to which he gl gite the of Nancy was as a sharp clear that spelled doom for man a deer and ninny many a hostile red min minIn In he hems was ms one of a party of 10 Long Lone hunters who pissed through Cumberland Gap and began be ln e the rIch country of Kentucky and Tennessee DurIn During the course of l ered the silt In the present 01 hlson county Tennessee which were after to his name After several months of huntIng I some of the party returned home to tor r orth Caroline some went ent north Into y Anil the under the of built boats bonts and do down n the Cumberland After a selles of they reached on the Mississippi where here they sold their furs hides and The next nest gear Mansker as back In Inthe inthe the Kentucky country as the elder ot of another party of hunters They gath gathered ered together an enormous store of buffalo elk and deer hIdes Then a party of Cherokees swept do down n upon theIr camp while they were absent and destro destroyed cd nJ all their peltries whereupon one at party carted can ed on th the e bark barI of a poplar tree this embittered record 2300 Deer Shins Lost Ruination Ruin by God I But they continued their bunting buntin g and on the banks of the Green rIver rive r one day an amusing ad befell Mansker MansIer To his 1115 ears cars came i 1 strange strang e sound Like n a shadow he crept among the trees In Its direction B fore him he n a man bare headed ed stretched etched flit on the gound singing merrily at the top of his voice l I rhe e singer gas as Daniel Boone thus consol Ing himself In the solitude e of the th e wIlderness while Iule he awaited n the re- re return r turn to camp of his brother Squire Boone Such was as the first meeting of o othi f these thi o two great Treat pioneers In 1779 Mansker established a set settlement I near the salt Melts he ha had dIs dIsco co coffered ered and to the end of his day s as a strong and helpful prop of the th e community whose first foundations li he e had helped h lay An Early Empire Builder TO Y S1 sty that trade follows s the Ii rg but quIte as often the flag follows trade and It Is not at j Impossible that the American fit mi might not hl hale e nO nOn flown n pier 0 er the C West If George Morgan trader ht u not ho shown n It the way before the Reso Resolution ne 0 lutIon As the junior member of the famous firm of Bunton Wharton and an d Morgan Indian traders this oung oun e tool took charge of Its ne new newly ly Indiana company In the th e IllinoIS country which GI BrItain n had just taken en over from Trance From the beginning Morgan mad e himself popular with the gild lid ec tribesmen of the West In fact the th em c thought so hl hh of hIm hl m that they conferred Upon him th the e name or of their greatest chieftain or Tammany Unlike so s many mans other white men of time time- h treated the Indians kindly and justI justly and so great was as hIs Influence over them that soon after the outbreak ot n the ne the Continental con congress congress gress appoInted him IndIan agent at a t fort rort PItt Finding himself thwarted and hh hl s advIce on how bow to handle the West Nest Western ern Indians to keep beep them neutral un tin heeded unheeded Morgan resigned In 1779 al Ld d I returned fast rast where he entered th the de e Continental army an and rose to the ran k of colonel At the close of the war he settled In PrInceton N J I where here he became n a leading citizen and n a trustee of the college But this empire builder could not resign himself to life In n a quIet col lege college town to n DurIng his career fiS as trader er In the West Vest he hid seen the a ast ast possibilities of that re region lon and lie he had spent almost as much time In n encouraging the tho development de of agri culture agriculture there as In his ti 11 iding I ties So In 1788 1733 he a Uto Uto- Utopian plan pian colony beyond the Mississippi tier der under the flag of Sprain lIe Ile secured un a huge tract of 15 act es and founded the town of New Madrid Madril opposite the mouth of the op I But the plotting of Get Gen James kinson checked the I development of the I plan and when hen the tho new federal under the Constitution got gO e ee tended Its PO power er In the West Morgan lorgan abandoned his project entirely Ing In 1796 17 G to a vast estate Mor It ItIn In counts Penn Sylvania To him there came Clune Aaron Burr with witha a I but a traitorous he one of which could not e and It was Mor gan an anho who ho kave to President I the he first Jefferson on authentic the Burr information lion t conspiracy 1 Iol 1810 but an died In not until lie he had I a leader lelder In become scientific to du do which great empIre so much to t del de clop elop the of the Middle West e 1933 iio 0 turn Newspaper Union |