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Title: The Cabin on the Prairie

Author: C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

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THE CABIN ON THE PRAIRIE

by

DR. C. H. PEARSON

Author of "Scenes in the West," Etc.

ILLUSTRATED

[Illustration: CAPTURE OF THE FAWN. Page 20]

Boston:
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
Lee And Shepard,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.

TO

MY SISTER,

WHOSE SPIRIT HAS JUST GONE FROM PRAIRIE-LIFE

TO THE HILLS OF PARADISE,

I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK.

C. H. PEARSON.

A FRONTIER PROPHET.

INTRODUCTORY.

"If you stay here long, you will become so Westernized that you will
lose all love for New England. That's my experience." So said a brawny
pioneer, a man of large mind, and generous heart, and a sledge-hammer
fist that never struck a coward's blow; but when swung in defence of
the right was like "the jaw-bone" of Samson to the Philistines. He had
emigrated from Maine twenty years before, and was one of the first
settlers I met on the prairie near the scene of my story. Was his
prediction fulfilled? Ah, how like sweetest music sounded the bells of
Salem (city of peace) the first Sunday of my return to the Old Bay
State! Besides, the frontiersman misrepresented himself. For, seated
by his ample clay-stick-and-stone fireplace, how his eye kindled, and
tones mellowed, as he treated us to reminiscences of his early days!
And what a grip he gave the hand of a fre