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STRANGE STORIES OF THE
GREAT VALLEY
STRANGE STORIES
OF THE
GREAT VALLEY
THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY PIONEER
BY
JOHNSTON GROSVENOR
ILLUSTRATED
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Strange Stories of the Great Valley
Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Foreword | ix |
| Chapter I. Long, Long Ago | 1 |
| Digging for treasure-trove with Parson Cutler among the Mound-Builders' work at Marietta. | |
| Chapter II. Taming the Wild | 15 |
| Helping Johnny Appleseed to teach a red deer near the seat of Burr's Conspiracy at the Fairy Isle of Belpre. | |
| Chapter III. Gobble! Gobble! | 28 |
| Bagging a wild turkey to feast Ol' Pap Soisson after his story of the French Grant at Gallipolis. | |
| Chapter IV. Making a Scout | 41 |
| Saving Simon Kenton's foxhound from the dangers of the new city of Cincinnati. | |
| Chapter V. Blue-jay Feathers | 55 |
| Riding with Colonel Johnson's Long Hunters down the Clark War Road to the rescue of Boonesboro. | |
| Chapter VI. Left Hind Foot | 77 |
| Henry Clay's home at Ashland and a runaway slave from Cumberland Gap. | |
| Chapter VII. The Drowsy Village | 96 |