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Rufus Putnam
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Colonel Putnam, the Engineer
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The First Emigrants
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Building a Fleet
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Campus Martius
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The Arrival of General Putnam
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The Work of the First Emigrants
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Clearing the Land
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How Our Company Was Formed
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Making Ready for the Journey
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Concerning Myself
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Setting Out
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Mistress Devoll's Outfit
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At Providence
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On the Road to Blooming Grove
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Plans for the Future
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On the Water Once More
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Feasting on Honey
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Among the Moravians
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The Rope Ferry
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The Way through Pennsylvania
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The Shame of the Girls
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Meeting with Parson Cutler
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Ohio Cornfields
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The Governor and Judges
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The Name of the Town
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Campus Martius
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Independence Day
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Master Devoll's House
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The Indian Mounds
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At Harrisburg
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Isaac Barker's Sport
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Uncle Daniel Carter
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Uncle Daniel Joins Our Company
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Hard Traveling
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Mud and Water
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A Storm of Snow
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Across the Mountains
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A Friendly Dunkard
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Master Hiples's Kindness
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A Surly Landlord
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Isaac Flogs the Landlord
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A Much Needed Lesson
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A Time of Rest
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Pack Trains
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A Night Adventure
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Fears about the Women and Children
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Descending the Mountains
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At the Foot of the Hills
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Nearing the End of the Journey
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At Sumrill's Ferry
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Parting with Uncle Daniel
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Our Flatboat
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The Cattle Are Sent Away
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At Pittsburgh
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Too Much Water
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Escape of the Woman and Children
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Repairing Damages
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Our Pilot
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A Change of Weather
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Noisy Fear
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A Real Feast
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Finding the Canoe
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Buffalo Creek
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The March across the Country
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At Marietta
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Plans for the Future
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Inspecting the Town of Marietta
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A Temporary Home
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Buying Land
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Visiting the Savages
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Captain Haskell's Advice
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A New Friend
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Fishing through the Ice
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The Sabbath in Marietta
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A Regular Business
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A Visit from the Savages
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Building a Home
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A Great Project
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The Two Millers
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The Savages on the Warpath
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Front Matter
FOREWORD
The
author of this series of stories for children has
endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants
of the early colonists fought their way through the
wilderness in search of new homes. The several
narratives deal with the struggles of those adventurous
people who forced their way westward, ever westward,
whether in hope of gain or in answer to "the call of
the wild," and who, in so doing, wrote their names with
their blood across this country of ours from the Ohio
to the Columbia.
To excite in the hearts of the young people of this
land a desire to know more regarding the building up of
this great nation, and at the same time to entertain in
such a manner as may stimulate to noble deeds, is the
real aim of these stories. In them there is nothing of
romance, but only a careful, truthful record of the
part played by children in the great battles with those
forces, human as well as natural, which, for so long a
time, held a vast
portion of this broad land against the advance of home
seekers.
With the knowledge of what has been done by our own
people in our own land, surely there is no reason why
one should resort to fiction in order to depict scenes
of heroism, daring, and sublime disregard of suffering
in nearly every form.
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