Centennial History of Missouri (The Center State) One Hundred Years in the Union, 1820-1921 1
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Captain Joseph Conway was the hero of young Missourians of 1820. He had been scalped three times. He had been tomahawked. He had been shot. He had been left for dead. The stories that were told of Captain Conway rivaled those about Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton. Boys got behind the captain and looked with admiring awe at the spots from which the Indians had cut the scalp locks. Captain Conway was a Mrginian. He came west early in life and fought Vol. 1—33 514 CENTENNIAL HISTORY OE MISSOURI Indi...ans. When the Spanish governor, Trudeau, was encouraging American settlers to come west of the Mississippi, he extended a special invitation to Captain Conway. About the time that Daniel Boone moved over from Ken- tuckv Joseph Conway accepted a grant of land from Trudeau and became a resident of what is now St. Louis county. That was in 1798. six years before American authority was established in St. Louis. Conway was an Indian fighter from the time he could carry a gun. He accompanied Boone and Kenton on their campaigns against the Indians.
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