Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-01-26
THE TRAIL BLAZERS

When at Col Codys funeral speaker used the old
expression He blazed the trail in the Vest the term
literally He in regular succession in the line of
those wonderful who in the settlement of the wilderness
three thousand miles in width between the worlds two great
oceans, conspicuous path-finders
IF artist time, picks up and carries out the
idea of making continuous picture of that settlement few
those avant courers, Of whom Col Cody of the
asst will be the most brilliant details of the wonderful piano.
Among the first known of these George Washington
On he penetrated far west where Pttsburg
s and with soldiers instinct and noted the strategic
Importance Of the place. We know this from the history which
tells how he volunteered appointed to lead Braddocks
army to that important point
But it is possible that the colonial authorities in
pred suggest Washington to make his survey by the
port of that other pathfinder and trail blazer Daniel
Boone made after he had penetrated the wilderness far
west the dark and bloody ground of what Ken
lucky.
Lewis and Clark were next conspicuous though they were
not native wanderust explorers They sent definite
Journey exploration As much interest attaches to the trek
into Texas by any those
wanderers Indeed there has always been and always will be
longing to know if there not behind his going west
which he too proud too consderate Of
other to ever refer to.
Then Davy Crockett took and held the stage for many
the to whom most consideration DUE
and who always surrounded by frontier radiant halo
He succeeded by exit Carson' and then there
Bridger and all the Others
But it is pity that is it not definitely known who in
vented original trail blazers may Cody;
certainly Cody had and used with terrible effect upon the
hostile savages The idea to build the frontier house
small HILL then from the basement of the
under the h then make upase to the surfaces then make
chamber at the top set mbers to leave openings about fiji
teen inches high and exposed all around and then support the
surface to the earth.
Cody had this arrangement He band of about a
dozen savages sukng his house morning He load
ed three magazine rifles and taking extra ammuni
ton retired to his perch After investigating at distance,
the savage finally made for the house. Reaching it,
they evidently concluded that home and taking
fire from the fireplace began firing the house from the out
side One mounted the low roof and began his work there
Then Cody opened fire upon them and killed all but before
they could escape
When after the Civil war; General Sheridan went his
famous winter Indian raid he of these frontier home
forts and greatly impressed by it. declaring it the best
plan of fort he had When the Franco Prussian
prung Sheridan went to Europe to watch the pro-
of the the guest Of the prince of Prussia
It does not require much imagination to believe that he
planned this plan Of defense the prince the
Won Moke and that from the idea the modern trench fight
ing took FORM
An American built the first submarine; American
blazer first introduced trench fighting in the world
American agricultural implement maker invented the tractor
which the British converted into roncad and called
'tank; American invented the doubecompound engine
which his country rejected but which when accepted by
Great Britain revouonzed the carrying trade Of the
American invented the aeone and thus have Americans
deep with the mghe instruments Of destrueton-Good
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