PREFACE

Contents

NOTE

INTRODUCTION

I A Call for Aid

II The Prairie Wonder

III The Night March

IV A Siege and its Heroine

V The March Resumed

VI Seeking the Enemy

VII The Battle

VIII A Scene for a Painter

IX Brown's Night Appointment

X An Intrepid Charge

XI Brown to Our Prisoners

XII Hard Lines

XIII A Government Musket

XIV An Unfailing Guide

XV Hazardous Journeys

XVI The Osawatomie Battle

XVII Conclusion

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

The cover image has been created by the transcriber from the title page of the original.

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.