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The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas By: Noah Brooks (1830-1903) |
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In Uniform Style. THE BOY SETTLERS. By NOAH BROOKS. $1.25. THE BOY EMIGRANTS. By NOAH BROOKS. $1.25. A NEW MEXICO DAVID. By C. F. LUMMIS. $1.25. [Illustration: SURE ENOUGH, THERE THEY WERE, TWENTY FIVE OR THIRTY INDIANS.] THE BOY SETTLERS A Story of Early Times in Kansas by NOAH BROOKS Illustrated by W. A. Rogers New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1891 Copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner's Sons. TO John Greenleaf Whittier Whose patriotic songs were the inspiration of the prototypes of THE BOY SETTLERS This little book is affectionately inscribed CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Settlers, and Whence They Came. 1 II. The Fire Spreads. 9 III. On the Disputed Territory. 20 IV. Among the Delawares. 36 V. Tidings from the Front. 53 VI. Westward Ho! 62 VII. At the Dividing of the Ways. 72 VIII. The Settlers at Home. 85 IX. Setting the Stakes. 95 X. Drawing the First Furrow. 105 XI. An Indian Trail. 116 XII. House Building. 126 XIII. Lost! 134 XIV. More House Building. 150 XV. Play Comes After Work. 158 XVI. A Great Disaster. 181 XVII. The Wolf at the Door. 187 XVIII. Discouragement. 200 XIX. Down the Big Muddy. 215 XX. Stranded Near Home. 236 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO FACE PAGE SURE ENOUGH, THERE THEY WERE, TWENTY FIVE OR THIRTY INDIANS. Frontispiece IN CAMP AT QUINDARO. THE POEM OF "THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS." 34 THE YANKEE EMIGRANT. 54 OSCAR WAS PUT UP HIGH ON THE STUMP OF A TREE, AND, VIOLIN IN HAND, "RAISED THE TUNE." 60 THE POLLS AT LIBERTYVILLE. THE WOBURN MAN IS "HOISTED" OVER THE CABIN. 70 THE SETTLERS' FIRST HOME IN THE DESERTED CABIN. 90 YOUNKINS ARGUED THAT SETTLERS WERE ENTITLED TO ALL THEY COULD GET AND HOLD. 102 SANDY SEIZED A HUGE PIECE OF THE FRESHLY TURNED SOD, AND WAVING IT OVER HIS HEAD CRIED, "THREE CHEERS FOR THE FIRST SOD OF BLEEDING KANSAS!" 106 MAKING "SHAKES" WITH A "FROW." 128 FILLING IN THE CHINKS IN THE WALLS OF THE LOG CABIN. 142 LOST! 146 THEY WERE FEASTING THEMSELVES ON ONE OF THE DELICIOUS WATERMELONS THAT NOW SO PLENTIFULLY DOTTED THEIR OWN CORN FIELD. 160 HE GENTLY TOUCHED THE ANIMAL WITH THE TOE OF HIS BOOT AND CRIED, "ALL BY MY OWN SELF." 176 A GREAT DISASTER. 188 THE RETREAT TO BATTLES'S. 194 "HOME, SWEET HOME... Continue reading book >>
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