This story was written by a prominent educator to satisfy the insistent demand of active boys for an "Indian Story," as well as to help them to understand what even the young endured in the making of our country. The story is based on the last desperate stand of the brave and warlike Sioux tribes against the resistless tide of white men's civilization, the thrilling scenes of which were enacted on the Minnesota frontier in the early days of the Civil War.
"It is a book which will appeal to young and old alike, as the incidents are historically correct and related in a wide-awake manner."—Philadelphia Press.
"It seems like a strange, true story more than fiction. It is well written and in good taste, and it can be commended to all boy readers and to many of their elders."—Hartford Times.
THE SILVER ISLAND OF THE CHIPPEWA
By D. LANGE
Illustrated 12mo Cloth Price, Net, $1.00 Postpaid, $1.10
Here is a boys' book that tells of the famous Silver Island in Lake Superior from which it is a fact that ore to the value of $3,089,000 was taken, and represents a youth of nineteen and his active small brother aged eleven as locating it after eight months of wild life, during which they wintered on Isle Royale. Their success and escape from a murderous half-breed are due to the friendship of a noble Chippewa Indian, and much is told of Indian nature and ways by one who thoroughly knows the subject.
"There is no call to buy cheap, impossible stuff for boys' reading while there is such a book as this available."—Philadelphia Inquirer.