THE BOY SETTLERS.
CHAPTER I The Settlers, and Whence They Came.
CHAPTER II. THE FIRE SPREADS.
CHAPTER III. ON THE DISPUTED TERRITORY.
CHAPTER IV. AMONG THE DELAWARES.
CHAPTER V. TIDINGS FROM THE FRONT.
CHAPTER VI. WESTWARD HO!
CHAPTER VII. AT THE DIVIDING OF THE WAYS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE SETTLERS AT HOME.
CHAPTER IX. SETTING THE STAKES.
CHAPTER X. DRAWING THE FIRST FURROW.
CHAPTER XI AN INDIAN TRAIL.
CHAPTER XII. HOUSE-BUILDING.
CHAPTER XIII. LOST!
CHAPTER XIV. MORE HOUSE-BUILDING.
CHAPTER XV. PLAY COMES AFTER WORK.
CHAPTER XVI. A GREAT DISASTER.
CHAPTER XVII. THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.
CHAPTER XVIII. DISCOURAGEMENT.
CHAPTER XIX. DOWN THE BIG MUDDY.
CHAPTER XX. STRANDED NEAR HOME.
Title: The Boy Settlers
A Story of Early Times in Kansas
Author: Noah Brooks
Language: English
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THE BOY SETTLERS
In Uniform Style.
| THE BOY SETTLERS. By NOAH BROOKS. $1.25.
THE BOY EMIGRANTS. By NOAH BROOKS. $1.25.
A NEW MEXICO DAVID. By C. F. LUMMIS. $1.25. |
Sure Enough, There They Were, Twenty-five or Thirty Indians.
THE BOY SETTLERS
A STORY OF EARLY TIMES IN KANSAS
BY
NOAH BROOKS
ILLUSTRATED BY W. A. ROGERS
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1891
COPYRIGHT, 1891,
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.
TO
John Greenleaf Whittier
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 |
