“Too much crowded—too much crowded—I want more elbow-room.”—Boone on his way to Missouri.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.
PHILADELPHIA:
GEORGE S. APPLETON, 164 CHESNUT ST.

MDCCCL.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843,
By D. APPLETON & CO.,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.

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TO
HIS YOUNG COUNTRYMEN
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES,

AND ESPECIALLY