The BORDER WATCH
BOOKS BY JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SERIES
The Hunters of the Hills
The Rulers of the Lakes
The Lords of the Wild
The Shadow of the North
The Masters of the Peaks
The Sun of Quebec
THE YOUNG TRAILERS SERIES
The Young Trailers
The Forest Runners
The Keepers of the Trail
The Eyes of the Woods
The Free Rangers
The Riflemen of the Ohio
The Scouts of the Valley
The Border Watch
THE TEXAN SERIES
The Texan Scouts
The Texan Star
The Texan Triumph
THE CIVIL WAR SERIES
The Guns of Bull Run
The Guns of Shiloh
The Scouts of Stonewall
The Sword of Antietam
The Star of Gettysburg
The Rock of Chickamauga
The Shades of the Wilderness
The Tree of Appomattox
THE GREAT WEST SERIES
The Lost Hunters
The Great Sioux Trail
THE WORLD WAR SERIES
The Forest of Swords
The Guns of Europe
The Hosts of the Air
BOOKS NOT IN SERIES
Apache Gold
The Quest of the Four
The Last of the Chiefs
In Circling Camps
The Last Rebel
A Soldier of Manhattan
The Sun of Saratoga
A Herald of the West
The Wilderness Road
My Captive
The Candidate
"He saw two warriors, and he lay in the bush while they passed only twenty yards away." [Page 214]
The
BORDER WATCH
A STORY OF THE GREAT
CHIEF'S LAST STAND
BY
JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER
AUTHOR OF
"THE YOUNG TRAILERS," "THE FREE RANGERS,"
"THE SCOUTS OF THE VALLEY," ETC.
D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY
INCORPORATED
NEW YORK LONDON
1941
Copyright, 1912, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE
"The Border Watch" closes the series which began with "The YoungTrailers," and which was continued successively in "The Forest Runners,""The Keepers of the Trail," "The Eyes of the Woods," "The Free Rangers,""The Riflemen of the Ohio," and "The Scouts of the Valley." All theeight volumes deal with the fortunes and adventures of two boys, HenryWare and Paul Cotter, and their friends Shif'less Sol Hyde, Silent TomRoss and Long Jim Hart, in the early days of Kentucky. The action movesover a wide area, from New Orleans in the South to Lake Superior in theNorth, and from the Great Plains in the West to the land of the Iroquoisin the East.
It has been the aim of the author to present a picture of frontier life,and to show the immense hardships and dangers endured by our people, asthey passed through the wilderness from ocean to ocean. So much of itoccurred in the shadow of the forest, and so much more of it was takenas a matter of course that we, their descendants, are likely to forgetthe magnitude of their achievement. The conquest of the North Americancontinent at a vast expense of life and suffering is in real