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Herding Sheep
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Something about Texas
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Land Grants
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The "Texas Fever"
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Why I Wanted To Go into Texas
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Hunting in Texas
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Father Goes To Spy Out the Land
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Our Plantation in Mississippi
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Father Comes Home
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The Bigness of Texas
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Where We Were Going
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What I Hoped To Do
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Cattle Driving
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How We Set Out
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A Laborious Journey
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Kickapoo Indians
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Father Comes to My Rescue
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The Arrival at Fort Towson
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Preparing for a Storm
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The Storm
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Two Kinds of "Northers"
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How Turkeys Kill Rattlesnakes
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Deer and Rattlesnakes
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Making a Corral of Wagons
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On the Trail Once More
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Crossing the Red River
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A Texas Sheep Ranch
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The Profits from Sheep Raising
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Father's Land Claim
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Spanish Measurements
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The Chaparral Cock
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Our First Night on the Trinity
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Standing Guard
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A Turkey Buzzard
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Plans for Building a House
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The Cook Shanty
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A Storm of Rain
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A Day of Discomfort
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Thinking of the Old Home
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Waiting for the Sun
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Too Much Water
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The Stream Rising
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Trying To Save the Stock
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The Animals Stampeded
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Saving Our Own Lives
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A Raging Torrent
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A Time of Disaster
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The Flood Subsiding
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A Jack Rabbit
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Repairing Damages
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Rounding Up the Live Stock
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The First Meal after the Flood
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Waiting for Father
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Recovering Our Goods
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Setting To Work in Good Earnest
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Sawing Out Lumber
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Laboring in the Saw Pit
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Wild Cattle
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A Disagreeable Intruder
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Odd Hunting
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A Supply of Fresh Meat
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"Jerking" Beef
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Searching for the Cattle Again
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Our New Home
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Planting, and Building Corrals
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Bar-O Ranch
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An Odd Cart
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The Visitors
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Zeba's Curiosity
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Possible Treachery
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Suspicious Behavior
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Gyp's Fight with a Cougar
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In a Dangerous Position
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Hunting Wild Hogs
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Treed by Peccaries
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Gyp's Obedience
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My Carelessness
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Vicious Little Animals
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Father Comes to the Rescue
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The Increase in My Flock
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Unrest of the Indians
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Texas Joins the Union
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War with Mexico
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Selling Wool
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Peace on the Trinity
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My Dream Fulfilled
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Front Matter
FOREWORD
The
author of this series of stories for children has
endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants
of the early colonists fought their way through the
narratives deal with the struggles of those adventurous
people who forced their way westward, ever westward,
whether in hope of gain or in answer to "the call of
the wild," and who, in so doing, wrote their names with
their blood across this country of ours from the Ohio
to the Columbia.
To excite in the hearts of the young people of this
land a desire to know more regarding the building up of
this great nation, and at the same time to entertain in
such a manner as may stimulate to noble deeds, is the
real aim of these stories. In them there is nothing of
romance, but only a careful, truthful record of the
part played by children in the great battles with those
forces, human as well as natural, which, for so long a
time, held a vast
portion of this broad land against the advance of home
seekers.
With the knowledge of what has been done by our own
people in our own land, surely there is no reason why
one should resort to fiction in order to depict scenes
of heroism, daring, and sublime disregard of suffering
in nearly every form.
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