Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers
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ON THE TRAIL OF THE SIOUX
The Adventures of Two Boy Scouts on the Minnesota Frontier
By D. LANGE
Illustrated 12mo Cloth Price, Net, $1.00 Postpaid, $1.10
This story was written by a prominent educator to satisfy the insistentdemand of active boys for an "Indian Story," as well as to help them tounderstand what even the young endured in the making of our country. Thestory is based on the last desperate stand of the brave and warlikeSioux tribes against the resistless tide of white men's civilization,the thrilling scenes of which were enacted on the Minnesota frontier inthe early days of the Civil War.
"It is a book which will appeal to young and old alike, as the incidents are historically correct and related in a wide-awake manner."--_Philadelphia Press._
"It seems like a strange, true story more than fiction. It is well written and in good taste, and it can be commended to all boy readers and to many of their elders."--_Hartford Times._
THE SILVER ISLAND OF THE CHIPPEWA
By D. LANGE
Illustrated 12mo Cloth Price, Net, $1.00 Postpaid, $1.10
Here is a boys' book that tells of the famous Silver Island in LakeSuperior from which it is a fact that ore to the value of $3,089,000 wastaken, and represents a youth of nineteen and his active small brotheraged eleven as locating it after eight months of wild life, during whichthey wintered on Isle Royale. Their success and escape from a murderoushalf-breed are due to the friendship of a noble Chippewa Indian, andmuch is told of Indian nature and ways by one who thoroughly knows thesubject.
"There is no call to buy cheap, impossible stuff for boys' reading while there is such a book as this available."--_Philadelphia Inquirer._
_For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by thepublishers_
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON