Front matter
Reading edition
“You were never meant for the frontier.”
A Virginia Scout
By
HUGH PENDEXTER
Author of
Kings of the Missouri, Etc.
Frontispiece by
D. C. Hutchison
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1920
The Ridgway Company
Copyright 1922
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Printed in the United States of America
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
To
Faunce Pendexter
My Son and Best of Seven-Year-Old Scouts
This Story Is Lovingly Dedicated
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Three Travelers 1
II Indian-Haters 23
III Over the Mountains 55
IV I Report to My Superiors 81
V Love Comes a Cropper 106
VI The Pack-Horse-Man’s Medicine 133
VII Lost Sister 167
VIII In Abb’s Valley 193
IX Dale Escapes 229
X Our Medicine Grows Stronger 265
XI Back to the Blue Wall 289
XII The Shadows Vanish 311
XIII Peace Comes to the Clearing 352
A Virginia Scout