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A VIRGINIA MATRON ENCOURAGING THE PATRIOTISM OF HER SONS AT THE DEATH-BED OF THEIR FATHER, LOST IN A SNOW STORM, THE HUNTRESS OF THE LAKES SURPRISED BY INDIANS, A HEROIC EXPLOIT IN SUPPLYING WITH POWDER A BLOCK-HOUSE BESIEGED BY INDIANS, DARING EXPLOIT OF MISS VAN ALSTINE, FOOD AND CLOTHING SUPPLIED TO THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY BY PATRIOTIC WOMEN, PERILOUS CROSSING OF THE ALLEGHANY RIVER, WAGON TRAIN ON THE PRAIRIE, STRATAGEM OF MRS. DAVIESS IN CAPTURING A KENTUCKY ROBBER, TWO KENTUCKY GIRLS CAPTURED BY INDIANS, PARTED FOR EVER, AN EQUESTRIAN FEAT, TREED BY A BEAR, RESCUING A HUSBAND FROM WOLVES, DEFEAT OF GUERILLAS, MASTERING BANDITS, CHAPTER I.
ОглавлениеWOMAN AS A PIONEER,
America's Unnamed Heroines.
Maids and Matrons of the "Mayflower." Woman's Work in Early Days. Devotion and Self-sacrifice. Strange Story of Mrs. Hendee. Face to Face with the Indians. A Mother's Love Triumphant Woman among the Savages. The Massacre of Wyoming. Sufferings of a Forsaken Household. The Patriot Matron and her Children. The Acmé of Heroism. Adventures of an English Traveler. Woman in the Rocky Mountains. A Story of a Lonely Life. Nocturnal Visitors and their Reception. Life in the Far West. Mrs. Manning's Home in Montana, Female Emigrants on the Plains. A True Heroine.
