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Title: A Prairie-Schooner Princess Author: Mary Katherine Maule Release Date: August 13, 2013 [EBook #43463] Reposted: February 02, 2014 [- text correction] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PRAIRIE-SCHOONER PRINCESS
[Illustration: "SOMETHING NEARER, DEARER, SWEETER THAN A SISTER--I WANT YOU FOR MY WIFE!"--_Page_ 356.]
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD Co.
Norwood Press BERWICK & SMITH CO. NORWOOD, MASS. U.S.A.
_Dedicated to the memory of those gentle pioneers who have gone on to their reward, but whose influence will long be felt in that State to which they came in a Prairie Schooner_
Thanks are due to Mr. Addison Erwin Sheldon, Director of the Nebraska Legislative Reference Bureau and The Nebraska State Historical Society, for aid in research work.
I. The Strangers II. The Grave in the Desert III. Princess IV. Leaving the Old Home V. Westward Ho! VI. In Which the Pioneers Hear Alarming News VII. A Night of Horror VIII. Joe Meets a Friend and Makes an Enemy IX. Red Snake X. Nebraska XI. The Prairie Fire XII. A Nebraska Dugout XIII. The Minne-to-wauk-pala XIV. The New Home XV. Building the Sod House XVI. In the Hands of the Enemy XVII. Eagle Eye XVIII. A Life for a Life XIX. How Joe Came Home XX. Eagle Eye Remembers XXI. The Blizzard XXII. To the Rescue XXIII. Christmas on the Prairies XXIV. Ruth Makes a Discovery XXV. The Dispatch-Box XXVI. Trouble Brewing XXVII. War XXVIII. In Camp and Field XXIX. Home Again XXX. Ruth Receives a Surprise XXXI. Joe Hears a Strange Story
"Something nearer, dearer, sweeter than a sister--I want you for my wife!" (Page 356) . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
The little Princess settled down beside him, her chin in her hand
Sunrise found her plodding on, a forlorn little figure on a big bay mare
From under the curving top of a canvas-covered "prairie schooner" a boy of about fifteen leaned out, his eyes straining intently across the brown, level expanse of the prairies.