FAMOUS FRONTIERSMEN
AND HEROES OF THE BORDER
FAMOUS LEADERS SERIES
BY
CHARLES H. L. JOHNSTON
Each one volume, large 12mo, illustrated,
$1.50
FAMOUS CAVALRY LEADERS
FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS
FAMOUS SCOUTS
FAMOUS PRIVATEERSMEN
FAMOUS FRONTIERSMEN
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
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DANIEL MORGAN.
AND HEROES OF THE BORDER
Their adventurous lives and stirring
experiences in Pioneer days
By
CHARLES H. L. JOHNSTON
Author of “Famous Cavalry Leaders,” “Famous Indian
Chiefs,” “Famous Scouts,” etc.
Illustrated
BOSTON L. C. PAGE &
COMPANY MDCCCCXIII
Copyright, 1913, by
L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
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First Impression, November, 1913
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.
DEDICATED
TO THE
Boy Scouts
OF THE WORLD
Thanks are due the Librarians of Congress,The Boston Public Library, and HarvardUniversity, for numerous courtesies extendedto the Author during the preparationof this volume.
My dear Boys; and particularly the BoyScouts: As so much interest was displayed in mybook “Famous Scouts” and requests for more taleswere made by many of you, I have collected someinteresting stories of valiant and daring adventurers,who were among the early settlers of the wilderness.These men were real scouts and trappers, for theylived in the wilds and had to know how to shoot arifle; how to trap; and how to camp in whatever placenight happened to overtake them. Savage men andwild beasts were frequently encountered, and desperatewere the fights which these fellows engaged in.Some of them lived to a happy and prosperous oldage; some perished from exposure, or by the handsof their red enemies.
You, yourselves, are playing at scouting in cities,in villages, and in a country which long since has beenpopulated by the whites. These hardy, old fellowsdid not play at scouting, for it was their real existence,and they had to know the