THE BOY SETTLERS
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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.
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SURE ENOUGH, THERE THEY WERE, TWENTY-FIVE OR THIRTYINDIANS.]
THE BOY SETTLERS
A Story of Early Times in Kansas
by
NOAH BROOKS
Illustrated by W. A. Rogers
New YorkCharles Scribner's Sons1891
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." 204