Chapter III
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BOY DAYS IN KANSAS.
My Indian Acquaintances—An Indian Barbecue—Beginning of the Kansas Troubles—An Indiscreet Speech by my Father, who is Stabbed for his Boldness—Persecutions at the Hands of the Missourians—A Strategic Escape—A Battle at Hickory Point—A Plan to Kill Father is Defeated by Myself—He is Elected to the Lecompton Legislature—I Enter the Employ of William Russell—Herding Cattle—A Plot to Blow Up our House—A Drunken Missourian on the War-Path.