E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 29129-h.htm or 29129-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29129/pg29129-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29129/29129-h.zip) THE BOY SETTLERS * * * * * In Uniform Style. THE BOY SETTLERS. By NOAH BROOKS. $1.25. THE BOY EMIGRANTS. By NOAH BROOKS. $1.25. A NEW MEXICO DAVID. By C. F. LUMMIS. $1.25. * * * * * [Illustration: SURE ENOUGH, THERE THEY WERE, TWENTY-FIVE OR THIRTY INDIANS.] THE BOY SETTLERS A Story of Early Times in Kansas by NOAH BROOKS Illustrated by W. A. Rogers New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1891 Copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner's Sons. TO John Greenleaf Whittier Whose patriotic songs were the inspiration of the prototypes of THE BOY SETTLERS This little book is affectionately inscribed CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Settlers, and Whence They Came. 1 II. The Fire Spreads. 9 III. On the Disputed Territory. 20 IV. Among the Delawares. 36 V. Tidings from the Front. 53 VI. Westward Ho! 62 VII. At the Dividing of the Ways. 72 VIII. The Settlers at Home. 85 IX. Setting the Stakes. 95 X. Drawing the First Furrow. 105 XI. An Indian Trail. 116 XII. House-Building. 126 XIII. Lost! 134 XIV. More House-Building. 150 XV. Play Comes After Work. 158 XVI. A Great Disaster. 181 XVII. The Wolf at the Door. 187 XVIII. Discouragement. 200 XIX. Down the Big Muddy. 215 XX. Stranded Near Home. 236 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO FACE PAGE SURE ENOUGH, THERE THEY WERE, TWENTY-FIVE OR THIRTY INDIANS. _Frontispiece_ IN CAMP AT QUINDARO. THE POEM OF "THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS." 34