Strange Stories of Colonial Days

Timeless and historic, sixteen original stories from the colonies. I THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN Adventures in Early Indian History By Francis S. Drake II CORNELIS LABDEN'S LEAP A Legend of 1645 Retold By G. T. Ferris III TOMMY TEN-CANOES A Tale of King Philip's Scouts By Hezekiah Butterworth IV JONATHAN'S ESCAPE A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner's Falls in 1676 By Robert H. Fuller V THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN In the Days of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia By Sally Nelson Robins VI HOW A BLACKSMITH'S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the late Seventeenth Century By Paul Hull VII THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692 By G. T. Lanigan VIII HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN A Rescue from the "Lords of the Woods" in 1695 By Francis Sterne Palmer IX CAPTAIN KIDD An Overrated Pirate By Rowan Stevens X HOWARD THE BUCCANEER A Captain of Many Ships By Rowan Stevens XI TEW, OF RHODE ISLAND A Fighter from the Seas By Rowan Stevens XII THE VROUW VAN TWINKLE'S KRULLERS A Story of Old New York By Agnes Carr Sage XIII THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century By G. T. Ferris XIV A DRUMMER OF WARBURTON'S How a Boy Held Fort George at Cape Canso, in 1757 By Percie W. Hart XV ROGER'S RANGERS The Famous New Hampshire Scouts of the Old French War By Francis S. Drake XVI THE PLOT OF PONTIAC How Detroit was Saved in 1763 By Francis S. Drake These pictures of Colonial life and adventure make up a panorama which extends from Powhatan and John Smith, in the days of the Jamestown colony, to Pontiac's attempt upon Detroit in the period which preceded the Revolution. Here one may read stories which are strange indeed, of King Philip's War in New England, of a Dutch hero's exploit on the…