“You were never meant for the frontier.”
A Virginia Scout
By
HUGH PENDEXTER
Author of
Kings of the Missouri, Etc.
Frontispiece by
D. C. Hutchison
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1920
The Ridgway Company
Copyright 1922
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Printed in the United States of America
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
To
Faunce Pendexter
My Son and Best of Seven-Year-Old Scouts
This Story Is Lovingly Dedicated
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Three Travelers | [1] |
| II | Indian-Haters | [23] |
| III | Over the Mountains | [55] |
| IV | I Report to My Superiors | [81] |
| V | Love Comes a Cropper | [106] |
| VI | The Pack-Horse-Man’s Medicine | [133] |
| VII | Lost Sister | [167] |
| VIII | In Abb’s Valley | [193] |
| IX | Dale Escapes | [229] |
| X | Our Medicine Grows Stronger | [265] |
| XI | Back to the Blue Wall | [289] |
| XII | The Shadows Vanish | [311] |
| XIII | Peace Comes to the Clearing | [352] |
A Virginia Scout