The reader will linger over these pages, thrilled by the consciousness that the scenes so vividly brought before him are real—a living, abiding part of our existence as a people. The "storied Rhine" and "classic Italy" are laid and overlaid thickly with traditions which give a vague interest to soil, ruin, mountain and sky. We, also, have our traditions—different in kind, but of wild and marvelous interest—and the day shall come when the banks of the fair Ohio, the blue Muskingum, the picturesque Allegany, the noble Mississippi, shall be trodden by reverent feet, while the thoughts of the traveler speed back to the days of the lurking red-man and the bold ranger. It is no mean duty of the chronicler to treasure up the threads of a thousand little facts, and weave them into a web which shall perpetuate them for the future. The publishers believe that this volume will not only be a favorite in the hands of men, young and old, but will have its appropriate place by the fireside. CONTENTS. Abduction of General Wadsworth, 236 Anecdotes of an early settler of Kentucky, 61 Anecdotes of juvenile heroism, 202 Anecdotes of Washington, 111 A remarkable hunting excursion, 133 Big Joe Logston's struggle with an Indian, 69 Boquet's expedition into Indian territory, 277 Brady's leap, 363 Brant and the boy, 32 Brave deeds of Logan, 245 British atrocities during the Revolution, 340 Captain Hubbell's adventure on the Ohio, 123 Captain John Sevier, 313 Captivity of Jonathan Alder, 270 Close quarters with a rattlesnake, 141 Colonel Horry, of Marion's brigade, 143 Davy Crockett's adventure with a cougar, 56 Deborah Sampson, the maiden warrior, 82 Dick Moxon's fight with the deer, 137 Downing's remarkable escape from an Indian, 120 Elerson's twenty-five mile race, 160 Ethan Allen, a prisoner of war, 229 Execution of Colonel Isaac Hayne, 335 Female characters of the Revolution, 175 General Dale's adventure, 310 Harrison's invasion of Canada and death of Tecumseh, 219 Heroic death of Cornstalk, sachem of the Shawnees, 252 Horrible atrocities by savages, 264 Horrible cruelties by British troops, 297 Horsewhipping a tyrant, 223