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Striving To Plan for the Future
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An Inquisitive Stranger
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An Unexpected Proposition
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I Set Out as a Guide
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John Mitchell's Outfit
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Making the Bargain
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We Leave St. Louis
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The Hardships To Be Encountered
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The Camp at Independence
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A Frontier Town
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The Start from Independence
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Careless Travelers
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Overrun by Wild Horses
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Searching for the Live Stock
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Abandoning the Missing Animals
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Meeting with Other Emigrants
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A Tempest
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Facing the Indians
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Teaching the Pawnees a Lesson
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The Pawnee Village
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A Bold Demand
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I Gain Credit as a Guide
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A Difficult Crossing
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Wash Day
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Indian Pictures
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A Plague of Wood Ticks
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Another Tempest
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The Cattle Stampeded Again
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Difficult Traveling
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Colonel Kearny's Dragoons
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Disagreeable Visitors
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Driving Away the Indians
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Turkey Hunting
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Eager Hunters
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Antelope Country
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Shooting Antelopes
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A Pawnee Visitor
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The Pawnees Try To Frighten Us
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Defending Ourselves
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Scarcity of Fuel, and Discomfort
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Lame Oxen
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An Army of Emigrants
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The Buffalo Country
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Hunting Buffaloes
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My Mother's Advice
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Ash Hollow Post Office
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New Comrades
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Fort Laramie
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A Sioux Encampment
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Indians on the March
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The Fourth of July
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Multitudes of Buffaloes
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We Meet Colonel Kearny Again
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Across the Divide
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Fort Bridger
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Trading at Fort Hall
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Thievish Snakes
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The Hot Springs
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The Falls of the Snake River
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Signs of the Indians
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Beset with Danger
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Hunger and Thirst
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Nearly Exhausted
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Arrival at Fort Boise
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On the Trail Once More
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Cayuse Indians
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The Columbia River
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An Indian Ferry
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The Dalles of the Columbia
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Our Live Stock
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My Work as Guide Ended
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I Become a Farmer
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Front Matter
FOREWORD
The
purpose of this series of stories is to show the
children, and even those who have already taken up the
study of history, the home life of the colonists with
whom they meet in their books. To this end every effort
has been made to avoid anything savoring of romance,
and to deal only with facts, so far as that is
possible, while describing the daily life of those
people who conquered the wilderness whether for
conscience' sake or for gain.
That the stories may appeal more directly to the
children, they are told from the viewpoint of a child,
and purport to have been related by a child. Should any
criticism be made regarding the seeming neglect to
mention important historical facts, the answer would be
that these books are not sent out as
histories,—although it is believed that they will
awaken a desire to learn more of the building of the
nation,—and only such incidents as would be
particularly noted by a child are used.
Surely it is entertaining as well as instructive for
young people to read of the toil and privations in the
homes of those who came into a new world to build up a
country for themselves, and such homely facts are not
to be found in the real histories of our land.
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