CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

I THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN Adventures in Early Indian History

II CORNELIS LABDEN’S LEAP A Legend of 1645 Retold

III TOMMY TEN-CANOES A Tale of King Philip’s Scout

IV JONATHAN’S ESCAPE A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner’s Falls in 1676

V THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN In the Days of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia

Footnotes:

VI HOW A BLACKSMITH’S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the late Seventeenth Century

VII THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692

VIII HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695

IX CAPTAIN KIDD An Overrated Pirate

X HOWARD THE BUCCANEER A Captain of Many Ships

XI TEW, OF RHODE ISLAND A Fighter from the Seas

XII THE VROUW VAN TWINKLE’S KRULLERS A Story of Old New York

XIII THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century

Footnotes:

XIV A DRUMMER OF WARBURTON’S How a Boy Held Fort George at Cape Canso, in 1757

XV ROGERS’ RANGERS The Famous New Hampshire Scouts of the Old French War

XVI THE PLOT OF PONTIAC How Detroit was Saved in 1763

STRANGE STORIES FROM HISTORY

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