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.
*CONTENTS*
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
*ILLUSTRATIONS*
"Something nearer, dearer, sweeter than a sister--I want you for my
wife!" (Page 356) . . . . . . _Frontispiece_