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Gustave Aimard. The Missouri Outlaws
The Missouri Outlaws
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE MISSOURI OUTLAWS
CHAPTER I. THE GOOD SHIP PATRIOT
CHAPTER II. SAMUEL DICKSON GIVES ADVICE TO HIS BROTHER
CHAPTER III. A QUEER CUSTOMER
CHAPTER IV. AN ALLIANCE OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE
CHAPTER V. A GREAT MEDICINE COUNCIL
CHAPTER VI. SAMUEL DICKSON HUNTS A MOOSE DEER
CHAPTER VII. JOSHUA DICKSON BECOMES MASTER OF THE VALLEY
CHAPTER VIII. DIANA DICKSON AND HER FOE
CHAPTER IX. THEY MAKE AN ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER X. WHO THE STRANGER WAS
CHAPTER XI. EXPLANATIONS
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE THREE TRAVELLERS WENT TO GEORGE CLINTON'S
CHAPTER XIII. TOM MITCHELL
SAMUEL AND JOSHUA
CHAPTER XV. NEW CHARACTERS
CHAPTER XVI. TOM MITCHELL AS REDRESSER OF WRONGS
CHAPTER XVII. A DIPLOMATIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO RASCALS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRISONER
CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH TOM MITCHELL DISCOVERS THAT HONESTY IS A GOOD SPECULATION
CHAPTER XX. A STRANGE CHASE
CHAPTER XXI. CAPTAIN TOM MITCHELL, THE AVENGER
CHAPTER XXII. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE
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Gustave Aimard
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Susan Dickson, the mother of this trio of giants, was a woman of about fifty—small, elegant, but extremely active, with delicate features and a pre-possessing physiognomy. She looked much younger than she really was—thanks to her really admirable complexion and the singular brightness of her eyes. She must have been rarely beautiful in her youth.
Diana, the child of her old age, as she loved to call her, was scarcely sixteen, was the idol of the family, the guardian angel of the fireside; her father and brothers actually worshipped her. It was something wonderful to see their rude natures bending like reeds before the slightest wish of this delicate child, and obeying her most fantastic orders without a murmur.
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