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Title: The Boy Settlers
A Story of Early Times in Kansas

Author: Noah Brooks

Release Date: June 15, 2009 [eBook #29129]

Language: English

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THE BOY SETTLERS

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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.

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[Illustration: 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

John Greenleaf Whittier

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.