All rights reserved.
Published May, 1907.

CONTENTS

[I
THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN]

Adventures in Early Indian History
By Francis S. Drake
[II
CORNELIS LABDEN’S LEAP]

A Legend of 1645 Retold
By G. T. Ferris
[III
TOMMY TEN-CANOES]

A Tale of King Philip’s Scouts
By Hezekiah Butterworth
[IV
JONATHAN’S ESCAPE]

A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner’s Falls in 1676
By Robert H. Fuller
[V
THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN]

In the Days of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia
By Sally Nelson Robins
[VI
HOW A BLACKSMITH’S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT]

The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the late Seventeenth Century
By Paul Hull
[VII
THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS]

How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692
By G. T. Lanigan
[VIII
HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN]

A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695
By Francis Sterne Palmer
[IX
CAPTAIN KIDD]

An Overrated Pirate
By Rowan Stevens
[X
HOWARD THE BUCCANEER]

A Captain of Many Ships
By Rowan Stevens
[XI
TEW, OF RHODE ISLAND]

A Fighter from the Seas
By Rowan Stevens
[XII
THE VROUW VAN TWINKLE’S KRULLERS]

A Story of Old New York
By Agnes Carr Sage
[XIII
THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT]

A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century
By G. T. Ferris
[XIV
A DRUMMER OF WARBURTON’S]

How a Boy Held Fort George at Cape Canso, in 1757
By Percie W. Hart
[XV
ROGER’S RANGERS]

The Famous New Hampshire Scouts of the Old French War
By Francis S. Drake
[XVI
THE PLOT OF PONTIAC]

How Detroit was Saved in 1763
By Francis S. Drake

ILLUSTRATIONS

[HE MANAGED TO PULL HIM UP BEHIND]Frontispiece
[“MEIN VROUW! MEIN GILDREN!” THEDUTCHMAN GROANED]Facing p.16
[“GOOD-BYE, TOMMY FIVE-CANOES”]32
[THE THONGS WERE CUT]92
[HE PLUNDERED AND BURNED]108
[THE HELPLESS PIRATES WERE SWEPT BACK]122
[HE WAS KNOCKED OVERBOARD BY A PIKE-THRUST]144
[SHE ROLLED AND PITCHED LIKE A MAD THING]204