[The Anglo-Saxon Every Time]

[The Critical Moment]

[A Western Monarch]

[In The Rapids]


DEERFOOT ON THE PRAIRIES.


CHAPTER I
WESTWARD BOUND.

ONE morning in early spring, at the beginning of the last century, a party of four persons left the frontier town of Woodvale, in southern Ohio, and started on their long journey across the continent.

Do you need an introduction to the little company? Hardly, and yet it is well to recall them to mind.