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

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