CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| [Foreword] | ix |
| [Chapter I. Long, Long Ago] | 1 |
| Digging for treasure-trove with Parson Cutler among the Mound-Builders' work at Marietta. | |
| [Chapter II. Taming the Wild] | 15 |
| Helping Johnny Appleseed to teach a red deer near the seat of Burr's Conspiracy at the Fairy Isle of Belpre. | |
| [Chapter III. Gobble! Gobble!] | 28 |
| Bagging a wild turkey to feast Ol' Pap Soisson after his story of the French Grant at Gallipolis. | |
| [Chapter IV. Making a Scout] | 41 |
| Saving Simon Kenton's foxhound from the dangers of the new city of Cincinnati. | |
| [Chapter V. Blue-jay Feathers] | 55 |
| Riding with Colonel Johnson's Long Hunters down the Clark War Road to the rescue of Boonesboro. | |
| [Chapter VI. Left Hind Foot] | 77 |
| Henry Clay's home at Ashland and a runaway slave from Cumberland Gap. | |
| [Chapter VII. The Drowsy Village] | 96 |
| A man-hunt in the vineyards of the Dufours' Swiss colony at Vevay. | |
| [Chapter VIII. Goin' to Meetin'] | 109 |
| Wrestling with Lorenzo Dow and the rowdies in camp-meeting time at the Big Falls. | |
| [Chapter IX. Under the Elm] | 123 |
| A boy's trial by Judge Jonathan Jennings during a recess of the Constitutional Convention at Corydon. | |
| [Chapter X. The Spelling-match] | 139 |
| Reciting and writing by moonlight to please a little stranger in an early school of Spencer County. | |
| [Chapter XI. A Pioneer Puppy] | 154 |
| Struggling with wolves on the way to Old Vincennes over the bottom-land of the Wabash. | |
| [Chapter XII. One Percussion Cap] | 166 |
| How a bear disturbed Father Rapp's model communistic village at Harmony. | |
| [Chapter XIII. The Voyageur] | 178 |
| A type of the early inhabitants. | |
| [Chapter XIV. The Beavers' Dam] | 190 |
| Creatures of the wild help to save a town. | |
| [Afterword] | 221 |