The Boy Settlers: A Story of Early Times in Kansas

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Noah Brooks. The Boy Settlers: A Story of Early Times in Kansas

CHAPTER I. THE SETTLERS, AND WHENCE THEY CAME

CHAPTER II. THE FIRE SPREADS

CHAPTER III. ON THE DISPUTED TERRITORY

CHAPTER IV. AMONG THE DELAWARES

CHAPTER V. TIDINGS FROM THE FRONT

CHAPTER VI. WESTWARD HO!

CHAPTER VII. AT THE DIVIDING OF THE WAYS

CHAPTER VIII. THE SETTLERS AT HOME

CHAPTER IX. SETTING THE STAKES

CHAPTER X. DRAWING THE FIRST FURROW

CHAPTER XI. AN INDIAN TRAIL

CHAPTER XII. HOUSE-BUILDING

CHAPTER XIII. LOST!

CHAPTER XIV. MORE HOUSE-BUILDING

CHAPTER XV. PLAY COMES AFTER WORK

CHAPTER XVI. A GREAT DISASTER

CHAPTER XVII. THE WOLF AT THE DOOR

CHAPTER XVIII. DISCOURAGEMENT

CHAPTER XIX. DOWN THE BIG MUDDY

CHAPTER XX. STRANDED NEAR HOME

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One fine morning in May, Mr. Bryant was standing at his front gate watching for his brother-in-law, Mr. Howell, to come down the street.

He held a newspaper in his hand, and with this, loosely rolled, he was impatiently tapping on the gate as Mr. Howell drew near. Evidently something had happened to disturb him.

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All was settled at last, and that, too, in some haste, for the season was rapidly advancing when planting must be attended to, if they were to plant that year for the fall harvest. From the West they heard reports of hosts of people pouring into the new Territory, of land being in great demand, and of the best claims near the Missouri being taken by early emigrants. They must be in a hurry if they were to get a fair chance with the rest and a fair start on their farm,–a farm yet existing only in their imagination.

Their wagon, well stored with clothing and provisions, a few books, Oscar’s violin, a medicine chest, powder, shot, and rifle-balls, and an assortment of odds and ends,–the wagon, so long a magical repository of hopes and the most delightful anticipations, was ready at last. It stood at the side gate of Mr. Bryant’s home, with a “spike team” (two horses at the pole, and one horse for a leader) harnessed. It was a serious, almost solemn, moment. Now that the final parting had come, the wrench with which the two families were to be broken up seemed harder than any of the members had expected. The two mothers, bravely keeping up smiling faces, went about the final touches of preparations for the lads’ departure and the long journey of their husbands.

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