Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U.S.A.

Dedicated to the memory of those gentle
pioneers who have gone on to their
reward, but whose influence will long be
felt in that State to which they came in a
Prairie Schooner

Thanks are due to Mr. Addison Erwin Sheldon,
Director of the Nebraska Legislative Reference
Bureau and The Nebraska State Historical
Society, for aid in research work.

CONTENTS

  1. [The Strangers]
  2. [The Grave in the Desert]
  3. [Princess]
  4. [Leaving the Old Home]
  5. [Westward Ho!]
  6. [In Which the Pioneers Hear Alarming News]
  7. [A Night of Horror]
  8. [Joe Meets a Friend and Makes an Enemy]
  9. [Red Snake]
  10. [Nebraska]
  11. [The Prairie Fire]
  12. [A Nebraska Dugout]
  13. [The Minne-to-wauk-pala]
  14. [The New Home]
  15. [Building the Sod House]
  16. [In the Hands of the Enemy]
  17. [Eagle Eye]
  18. [A Life for a Life]
  19. [How Joe Came Home]
  20. [Eagle Eye Remembers]
  21. [The Blizzard]
  22. [To the Rescue]
  23. [Christmas on the Prairies]
  24. [Ruth Makes a Discovery]
  25. [The Dispatch-Box]
  26. [Trouble Brewing]
  27. [War]
  28. [In Camp and Field]
  29. [Home Again]
  30. [Ruth Receives a Surprise]
  31. [Joe Hears a Strange Story]

ILLUSTRATIONS

["Something nearer, dearer, sweeter than a sister—I want you for my wife!"] (Page [356]) . . . . . . Frontispiece

[The little Princess settled down beside him, her chin in her hand]

["Keep it; you were good and saved us"]

[Sunrise found her plodding on, a forlorn little figure on a big bay mare]