In the history of our country there is no more thrilling story than that of the work done on the Mississippi river by a handful of frontiersmen. Mr. Otis takes the reader on that famous expedition from the arrival of Major Clarke's force at Corn Island, until Kaskaskia was captured...
On the Kentucky Frontier By James Otis James Otis Jr. (February 5, 1725 - May 23, 1783) was a lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer and legislator in Boston, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against British policy...
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"On the Kentucky Frontier" from James Otis Kaler. American journalist and author of children's literature; he wrote under the name James Otis (1848-1912).
It is my purpose to set down what I saw during such time as Simon Kenton gave me my first lessons in woodcraft and it is well to make the statement in advance in order that others may be deprived of the opportunity of saying what would sound disagreeable: -that the pupil was...