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THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE OHIO, Or: Clearing the Wilderness $1.25
THE PIONEER BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKES, Or: On the Trail of the Iroquois 1.25
THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Or: The Homestead in the Wilderness 1.25
THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE MISSOURI, Or: In the Country of the Sioux 1.25
THE PAGE COMPANY 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
[Illustration: "A SQUAW DARTED FORWARD, . . . AND, SEIZING HOLD OF ROGER, LOOKED EAGERLY IN HIS FACE."
THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE MISSOURI OR: IN THE COUNTRY OF THE SIOUX
By HARRISON ADAMS Author of "The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio," "The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes," "The Pioneer Boys of the Mississippi," etc.
THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON [Illustration] MDCCCCXIV
THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO. BOSTON, U. S. A.
MY DEAR BOYS:--It is with great pleasure that I have responded to my publisher's appeal for a new volume in connection with boy pioneer life during those early days in the history of our country when brave men, and women also, kept pushing the frontier line constantly westward, toward the setting sun.
Since Bob and Sandy Armstrong came to the end of their migrations when they settled on the land purchased by old David, near the junction of the Missouri River with the mighty Mississippi, it is obvious that little that is new could be written concerning those old friends of ours.
But as it happened that they founded families of their own, and each had a son who was said to be a "chip of the old block," the story of young pioneer achievements can best be continued by transferring our allegiance to these two sturdy lads, Dick and Roger, whom, I feel sure, you will like fully as well as you did their fathers.
Just at the time when they had become strapping lads, ready to place full confidence in their ability to take care of themselves, it chanced that a wonderful opportunity came to them, whereby they were enabled to traverse the course of the great Missouri River from its mouth to its far-away source among the Rocky Mountains.
What this opportunity was like, and what astonishing things they met with on the long and dangerous journey, I have endeavored to describe and set down between the covers of this present book. I trust that you will enjoy reading it fully as well as you did the preceding volumes; and that at some date in the near future we may meet again in the pages of still another story of boy pioneer life.