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CONTENTS
BOOK I | ||
WHEN RED MEN RULED | ||
PAGE | ||
I. | A Child is Born | 1 |
II. | The Clark Home | 7 |
III. | Exit Dunmore | 12 |
IV. | The Wilderness Road | 14 |
V. | A Barrel of Gunpowder | 17 |
VI. | The Feudal Age | 19 |
VII. | Kaskaskia | 24 |
VIII. | The Spanish Donna | 28 |
IX. | Vincennes | 32 |
X. | The City of the Strait | 38 |
XI. | A Prisoner of War | 41 |
XII. | Two Wars at Once | 43 |
XIII. | The Key of the Country | 47 |
XIV. | Behind the Curtain | 50 |
XV. | The Attack on St. Louis | 53 |
XVI. | Old Chillicothe | 60 |
XVII. | "Detroit must be Taken" | 63 |
XVIII. | On the Ramparts | 69 |
XIX. | Exit Cornwallis | 72 |
XX. | The Old Virginia Home | 77 |
XXI. | Down the Ohio | 81 |
XXII. | Mulberry Hill | 87 |
XXIII. | Mississippi Troubles | 91 |
XXIV. | St. Clair | 97 |
XXV. | The Sword of "Mad Anthony" Wayne | 102 |
XXVI. | The Spaniard | 106 |
XXVII. | The Brothers | 113 |
XXVIII. | The Maid of Fincastle | 119 |
XXIX. | The President's Secretary | 122 |
XXX. | The President talks with Meriwether | 131 |
BOOK II | ||
INTO THE WEST | ||
I. | The Louisiana Purchase | 139 |
II. | The Knight of the White House | 144 |
III. | Recruiting for Oregon | 149 |
IV. | The Feud is Ended | 154 |
V. | The Cession of St. Louis | 157 |
VI. | Sergeant Ordway writes a Letter | 166 |
VII. | Into the Land of Anarchy | 167 |
VIII. | "The Sioux! The Sioux!" | 176 |
IX. | The Romance of the Mandans | 185 |
X. | The First Dakota Christmas | 192 |
XI. | The British Fur Traders | 199 |
XII. | Farewell to Fort Mandan | 204 |
XIII. | Toward the Sunset | 208 |
XIV. | The Shining Mountains | 214 |
XV. | A Woman Pilot | 221 |
XVI. | Idaho | 228 |
XVII. | Down the Columbia | 235 |
XVIII. | Fort Clatsop by the Sea | 242 |
XIX. | A Whale Ashore | 249 |
XX. | A Race for Empire | 257 |
XXI. | "A Ship! A Ship!" | 259 |
XXII. | Back to Civilisation | 265 |
XXIII. | Camp Chopunnish | 272 |
XXIV. | Over the Bitter Root Range | 277 |
XXV. | Beware the Blackfeet | 279 |
XXVI. | Down the Yellowstone | 283 |
XXVII. | The Home Stretch | 288 |
XXVIII. | The Old Stone Forts of St. Louis | 296 |
XXIX. | To Washington | 303 |
XXX. | The Plaudits of a Nation | 307 |
BOOK III | ||
THE RED HEAD CHIEF | ||
I. | The Shadow of Napoleon | 315 |
II. | American Rule in St. Louis | 319 |
III. | Farewell to Fincastle | 322 |
IV. | The Boat Horn | 327 |
V. | A Bride in St. Louis | 331 |
VI. | The First Fort in Montana | 335 |
VII. | A Mystery | 337 |
VIII. | A Lonely Grave in Tennessee | 343 |
IX. | Trade follows the Flag | 344 |
X. | Tecumseh | 352 |
XI. | Clark guards the Frontier | 360 |
XII. | The Story of a Sword | 369 |
XIII. | Portage des Sioux | 376 |
XIV. | "For our Children, our Children" | 386 |
XV. | Too Good to the Indians | 390 |
XVI. | The Red Head Chief | 397 |
XVII. | The Great Council at Prairie du Chien | 404 |
XVIII. | The Lords of the Rivers | 415 |
XIX. | Four Indian Ambassadors | 421 |
XX. | Black Hawk | 429 |
XXI. | A Great Life Ends | 434 |
XXII. | The New West | 438 |