The Boy Settlers: A Story of Early Times in Kansas
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Sure Enough, There They Were, Twenty-five or Thirty Indians.
THE BOY SETTLERS
A STORY OF EARLY TIMES IN KANSAS
NOAH BROOKS
ILLUSTRATED BY W. A. ROGERS
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1891
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.
Whose patriotic songs were the inspiration of the prototypes of THE BOY SETTLERS This little book is affectionately inscribed
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Noah Brooks
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THE BOY SETTLERS
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE BOY SETTLERS.
CHAPTER I
The Settlers, and Whence They Came.
CHAPTER II.
THE FIRE SPREADS.
CHAPTER III.
ON THE DISPUTED TERRITORY.
CHAPTER IV.
AMONG THE DELAWARES.
CHAPTER V.
TIDINGS FROM THE FRONT.
CHAPTER VI.
WESTWARD HO!
CHAPTER VII.
AT THE DIVIDING OF THE WAYS.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE SETTLERS AT HOME.
CHAPTER IX.
SETTING THE STAKES.
CHAPTER X.
DRAWING THE FIRST FURROW.
CHAPTER XI
AN INDIAN TRAIL.
CHAPTER XII.
HOUSE-BUILDING.
CHAPTER XIII.
LOST!
CHAPTER XIV.
MORE HOUSE-BUILDING.
CHAPTER XV.
PLAY COMES AFTER WORK.
CHAPTER XVI.
A GREAT DISASTER.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.
CHAPTER XVIII.
DISCOURAGEMENT.
CHAPTER XIX.
DOWN THE BIG MUDDY.
CHAPTER XX.
STRANDED NEAR HOME.