Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter By: Merrill Tileston
First Page: CHIQUITA [Illustration: CHIQUITA] CHIQUITA AN AMERICAN NOVEL The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter BY MERRILL TILESTON PUBLISHED BY THE MERRILL COMPANY CHICAGO, U. S. A. MCMII. Copyright 1902 by H. M. Tileston Chicago, U. S. A. All rights reserved CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER I. A Bozrah Bornin', 7 CHAPTER II. On the Firing Line of Civilization, 33 CHAPTER III. Cats, Traps and Indians, 50 CHAPTER IV. Old Joe Riggs, 71 CHAPTER V. The Camp in the Willows, 82 CHAPTER VI. The Ranch on the Troublesome, 110 CHAPTER VII. Chiquita Wooed by Antelope, 124 CHAPTER VIII. A Glimpse of Home, 134 CHAPTER IX. Ute Big Warrior No Plow, 143 CHAPTER X. The Blazing Eye Mine, 171 CHAPTER XI. College Vacations, 180 CHAPTER XII. Jack Wedded, 192 CHAPTER XIII. Estes Park, 212 CHAPTER XIV. Chiquita Graduates, 256 CHAPTER XV. A Hospital and A Boarding House, 263 CHAPTER XVI. Galling Yokes of Civilization, 274 CHAPTER XVII. Whence Come My People? 293 ILLUSTRATIONS. FRONTISPIECE, "Chiquita" YAMANATZ, 52 THE CAMP IN THE WILLOWS, 103 ANTELOPE THE WARRIOR, 1877, 132 ANTELOPE THE CIVILIAN, 1902, 168 THE "KEYHOLE" LONG'S PEAK, 212 "SHE LAY TO REST" ON HER BOULDER BED, 232 THE TEPEE ON THE GRAND RIVER, 303 CHIQUITA. CHAPTER I. A BOZRAH BORNIN'. A tallow candle shed its sickly and flickering light in the front room of an ancient farm house, as Jack Sheppard announced his arrival on earth at four o'clock on a Friday morning. He arrived in a snowstorm, and it was a very select gathering of some of old Bozrah's prominent citizens who greeted his entry into the world. There was old Doctor Pettingill, with square rimmed, blue glass spectacles; Grandma Paisley, who didn't care for avoirdupois, just so it was a boy; Aunt Diantha, with portentous air and red mittens, while in the kitchen, dozing by the big fireplace, was Uncle Zebedee, who had driven over from Pudden Hollow the evening before to learn the news and "set up" all night in order to be of assistance in case of necessity. The whole Deerfield valley was interested, and it made no difference if the snow did play tag up and down the necks and on the faces of all Bozrah as they brought paregoric, feather pillows, goody goodies and all the useful uselessnesses that each and every one had kept for years and years awaiting a possible occasion. There was an old brass warming pan that Deacon Baxter used to warm the bed for Governor Winthrop, and a hot water jug which Great grandma Lathrop averred warmed the feet of every one of her seventeen "darters and grand darters." There was also a quilt made of silk patches, each patch taken from a dress that some colonial dame had worn when she danced the stately minuet at a great function in Boston or Albany. All these good people had a successful way of bringing up children in the paths of self reliance, respect, thrift, endurance and honesty which made stalwart, orthodox patriots. The Sheppards were an old English family who settled in New England late in the seventeenth century three brothers, one of which, according to ye olden tyme records, planted the elm trees in front of the meetyngehouse on Dorchester hill; these trees, at the age of sixty or seventy years, being cut down by the British during the Revolutionary War. The descendants of the three brothers were thrifty men, large of physique and of great executive ability, the women the loveliest of the colonies families of sterling integrity, wealth and esteem... Continue reading book >>

Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter By: Merrill Tileston

First Page:

CHIQUITA

[Illustration: CHIQUITA]

CHIQUITA

AN AMERICAN NOVEL

The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter

MERRILL TILESTON

PUBLISHED BY THE MERRILL COMPANY CHICAGO, U. S. A. MCMII.

CONTENTS.

Page

CHAPTER I. A Bozrah Bornin', 7

CHAPTER II. On the Firing Line of Civilization, 33

CHAPTER III. Cats, Traps and Indians, 50

CHAPTER IV. Old Joe Riggs, 71

CHAPTER V. The Camp in the Willows, 82

CHAPTER VI. The Ranch on the Troublesome, 110

CHAPTER VII. Chiquita Wooed by Antelope, 124

CHAPTER VIII. A Glimpse of Home, 134

CHAPTER IX. Ute Big Warrior No Plow, 143

CHAPTER X. The Blazing Eye Mine, 171

CHAPTER XI. College Vacations, 180

CHAPTER XII. Jack Wedded, 192

CHAPTER XIII. Estes Park, 212

CHAPTER XIV. Chiquita Graduates, 256

CHAPTER XV. A Hospital and A Boarding House, 263

CHAPTER XVI. Galling Yokes of Civilization, 274

CHAPTER XVII. Whence Come My People? 293

ILLUSTRATIONS.

FRONTISPIECE, "Chiquita"

YAMANATZ, 52

THE CAMP IN THE WILLOWS, 103

ANTELOPE THE WARRIOR, 1877, 132

ANTELOPE THE CIVILIAN, 1902, 168

THE "KEYHOLE" LONG'S PEAK, 212

"SHE LAY TO REST" ON HER BOULDER BED, 232

THE TEPEE ON THE GRAND RIVER, 303

CHIQUITA.

CHAPTER I.

A BOZRAH BORNIN'.

A tallow candle shed its sickly and flickering light in the front room of an ancient farm house, as Jack Sheppard announced his arrival on earth at four o'clock on a Friday morning. He arrived in a snowstorm, and it was a very select gathering of some of old Bozrah's prominent citizens who greeted his entry into the world. There was old Doctor Pettingill, with square rimmed, blue glass spectacles; Grandma Paisley, who didn't care for avoirdupois, just so it was a boy; Aunt Diantha, with portentous air and red mittens, while in the kitchen, dozing by the big fireplace, was Uncle Zebedee, who had driven over from Pudden Hollow the evening before to learn the news and "set up" all night in order to be of assistance in case of necessity.

The whole Deerfield valley was interested, and it made no difference if the snow did play tag up and down the necks and on the faces of all Bozrah as they brought paregoric, feather pillows, goody goodies and all the useful uselessnesses that each and every one had kept for years and years awaiting a possible occasion. There was an old brass warming pan that Deacon Baxter used to warm the bed for Governor Winthrop, and a hot water jug which Great grandma Lathrop averred warmed the feet of every one of her seventeen "darters and grand darters." There was also a quilt made of silk patches, each patch taken from a dress that some colonial dame had worn when she danced the stately minuet at a great function in Boston or Albany.

All these good people had a successful way of bringing up children in the paths of self reliance, respect, thrift, endurance and honesty which made stalwart, orthodox patriots.

The Sheppards were an old English family who settled in New England late in the seventeenth century three brothers, one of which, according to ye olden tyme records, planted the elm trees in front of the meetyngehouse on Dorchester hill; these trees, at the age of sixty or seventy years, being cut down by the British during the Revolutionary War. The descendants of the three brothers were thrifty men, large of physique and of great executive ability, the women the loveliest of the colonies families of sterling integrity, wealth and esteem... Continue reading book >>

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