The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas
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McCarter Margaret Hill. The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas
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CHAPTER I. SPRINGVALE BY THE NEOSHO
CHAPTER II. JEAN PAHUSCA
CHAPTER III. THE HERMIT'S CAVE
CHAPTER IV. IN THE PRAIRIE TWILIGHT
CHAPTER V. A GOOD INDIAN
CHAPTER VI. WHEN THE HEART BEATS YOUNG
CHAPTER VII. THE FORESHADOWING OF PERIL
CHAPTER VIII. THE COST OF SAFETY
CHAPTER IX. THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING
CHAPTER X. O'MIE'S CHOICE
CHAPTER XI. GOLDEN DAYS
CHAPTER XII. A MAN'S ESTATE
CHAPTER XIII. THE TOPEKA RALLY
CHAPTER XIV. DEEPENING GLOOM
CHAPTER XV. ROCKPORT AND "ROCKPORT"
CHAPTER XVI. BEGINNING AGAIN
CHAPTER XVII. IN THE VALLEY OF THE ARICKAREE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SUNLIGHT ON OLD GLORY
CHAPTER XIX. A MAN'S BUSINESS
CHAPTER XX. THE CLEFT IN THE ROCK
CHAPTER XXI. THE CALL TO SERVICE
CHAPTER XXII. THE NINETEENTH KANSAS CAVALRY
CHAPTER XXIII. IN JEAN'S LAND
CHAPTER XXIV. THE CRY OF WOMANHOOD
CHAPTER XXV. JUDSON SUMMONED
CHAPTER XXVI. O'MIE'S INHERITANCE
CHAPTER XXVII. SUNSET BY THE SWEETWATER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HERITAGE
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Whenever I think of these broad Kansas plains I think also of Marjie. I cannot now remember the time when I did not care for her, but the day when O'mie first found it out is as clear to me as yesterday, although that was more than forty years ago. O'mie was the reddest-haired, best-hearted boy that ever laughed in the face of Fortune and made friends with Fate against the hardest odds. His real name was O'Meara, Thomas O'Meara, but we forgot that years ago.
"If O'mie were set down in the middle of the Sahara Desert," my Aunt Candace used to say, "there'd be an oasis a mile across by the next day noon, with never failing water and green trees right in the middle of it, and O'mie sitting under them drinking the water like it was Irish rum."
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"Well, no, I don't believe I am," replied my aunt.
She was not one of those blustering north-northwest women. She squared her life by the admonition of Isaiah, "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." But she was a Baronet, and although they have their short-comings, fear seems to have been left out of their make-up.
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