Produced by Mary Glenn Krause and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) YELLOW STAR [Illustration: “I seem to be just in time, again, Stella,” was all he said. FRONTISPIECE. _See page 265._] YELLOW STAR A STORY OF EAST AND WEST BY ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Author of “Wigwam Evenings,” “Little Brother o’ Dreams,” Etc. _With Illustrations by_ ANGEL DE CORA AND WILLIAM LONE STAR BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1911 _Copyright, 1911_, BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. _All rights reserved_ Published, September, 1911 _Electrotyped and Printed by THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A._ TO WINONA. (MOUNT HOLYOKE, 1914.) Dark eyes, that drew their mingled fires From native kings, and Pilgrim sires, And fused within one glowing breast The ardors of the East and West,— Child of the prairie’s generous sweep, Your tryst with grave Minerva keep, Yet first on Wisdom’s roll you’ll find The sacred love of humankind! CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. LAUREL FOLKS 3 II. THE GIRL FROM DAKOTA 20 III. A LESSON IN HISTORY 33 IV. THE-ONE-WHO-WAS-LEFT-ALIVE 46 V. IN WOLCOTT’S WOODS 63 VI. A WILD WEST PERFORMANCE 76 VII. BEHIND THE SCENES 88 VIII. THE RIGHT STUFF 99 IX. GLIMPSES OF OLD AMERICA 112 X. NOBODY’S LITTLE GIRL 130 XI. JUST FRIENDS 146 XII. HERBS AND SIMPLES 159 XIII. INDIAN HOSPITALITY 176 XIV. AN END AND A BEGINNING 193 XV. THE SCENE SHIFTS 207 XVI. BY RETURN OF POST 222 XVII. “PRAY FOR MY PEOPLE WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN” 238 XVIII. FACING THE SUNRISE 255 ILLUSTRATIONS