PILOTS OF THE REPUBLIC THE ROMANCE OF THE PIONEER PROMOTER IN THE MIDDLE WEST _UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME_ THE GLORY SEEKERS: The Romance of Would-be Founders of Empire in the Early Days of the Great Southwest. By WILLIAM HORACE BROWN. With sixteen portraits, and illustrative initials to chapters. 12mo. $1.50 _net_ A. C. McCLURG & CO., CHICAGO [Illustration: ZEISBERGER PREACHING TO THE INDIANS] 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 [Illustration] 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 of European history is not surprised to find that individuals stand out prominently in every activity that occupied man's attention; that even though there be under consideration great popular movements, such as the Crusades or the Reformation or French Revolution, attention centres around significant personalities. In the day of monarchies and despotisms, individual initiative very naturally led the way in outlining policies, selecting lieutenants, finding ways and means. It is singular to what a great extent this is true in the history of democratic America, preëminently the land where the people have ruled and where the usurper of power has had, comparatively, no opportunity whatever. And yet it is not too much to say that the history of our nation may be suggested in a skeleton way by a mere list of names, as, for instance, the history of the fourteenth century in Europe might easily be sketched. While we are proud to proclaim that America has given all men an equal opportunity, that the most humble may rise to the proudest position known among us, it yet remains singular that in this land where the popular voice has ruled as nowhere else almost every national movement or phase of development may be signified by the name of one man.