TO

Whose patriotic songs were the inspiration of the
prototypes of
THE BOY SETTLERS
This little book is affectionately inscribed

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Settlers, and Whence They Came. [1]
II.The Fire Spreads. [9]
III.On the Disputed Territory. [20]
IV.Among the Delawares. [36]
V.Tidings from the Front. [53]
VI.Westward Ho! [62]
VII.At the Dividing of the Ways. [72]
VIII.The Settlers at Home. [85]
IX.Setting the Stakes. [95]
X.Drawing the First Furrow. [105]
XI.An Indian Trail. [116]
XII.House-Building. [126]
XIII.Lost! [134]
XIV.More House-Building. [150]
XV.Play Comes After Work. [158]
XVI.A Great Disaster. [181]
XVII.The Wolf at the Door. [187]
XVIII.Discouragement. [200]
XIX.Down the Big Muddy. [215]
XX.Stranded Near Home. [236]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

TO FACE PAGE
Sure Enough, There They Were, Twenty-five or Thirty Indians.[Frontispiece]
In Camp at Quindaro. The Poem of “The Kansas Emigrants.”[34]
The Yankee Emigrant.[54]
Oscar was put up High on the Stump of a Tree, and, Violin in Hand, “Raised the Tune.”[60]
The Polls at Libertyville. the Woburn Man is “Hoisted” Over the Cabin.[70]
The Settlers’ First Home in the Deserted Cabin.[90]
Younkins Argued that Settlers were Entitled to all they Could Get and Hold.[102]
Sandy Seized a Huge Piece of the Freshly-Turned Sod, and Waving It Over His Head Cried, “Three Cheers for the First Sod of Bleeding Kansas!”[106]
Making “Shakes” with a “Frow.”[128]
Filling in the Chinks in the Walls of the Log-cabin.[142]
Lost![146]
They were Feasting Themselves on One of the Delicious Watermelons that now so Plentifully Dotted their Own Corn-field.[160]
He Gently Touched the Animal with the Toe of His Boot and Cried, “All by My Own Self.”[176]
A Great Disaster.[188]
The Retreat to Battles’s.[194]
“Home, Sweet Home.”[204]