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  THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE MISSOURI

  OR: IN THE COUNTRY OF THE SIOUX

  THE YOUNG PIONEER SERIES

  BY HARRISON ADAMS

  ILLUSTRATED

  THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE OHIO, Or: Clearing the Wilderness $1.25

  THE PIONEER BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKES, Or: On the Trail of the Iroquois 1.25

  THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Or: The Homestead in the Wilderness 1.25

  THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE MISSOURI, Or: In the Country of the Sioux 1.25

  _Other Volumes in Preparation_

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  The Young Pioneer Series

  THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE MISSOURI OR: IN THE COUNTRY OF THE SIOUX

  By HARRISON ADAMS Author of "The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio," "The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes," "The Pioneer Boys of the Mississippi," etc.

  Illustrated by WALTER S. ROGERS

  THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON MDCCCCXIV

  _Copyright, 1914, by_ THE PAGE COMPANY

  _All rights reserved_

  First Impression, April, 1914

  THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO. BOSTON, U. S. A.

  PREFACE

  MY DEAR BOYS:--It is with great pleasure that I have responded to mypublisher's appeal for a new volume in connection with boy pioneer lifeduring those early days in the history of our country when brave men,and women also, kept pushing the frontier line constantly westward,toward the setting sun.

  Since Bob and Sandy Armstrong came to the end of their migrations whenthey settled on the land purchased by old David, near the junction ofthe Missouri River with the mighty Mississippi, it is obvious thatlittle that is new could be written concerning those old friends ofours.

  But as it happened that they founded families of their own, and eachhad a son who was said to be a "chip of the old block," the story ofyoung pioneer achievements can best be continued by transferring ourallegiance to these two sturdy lads, Dick and Roger, whom, I feel sure,you will like fully as well as you did their fathers.

  Just at the time when they had become strapping lads, ready to placefull confidence in their ability to take care of themselves, itchanced that a wonderful opportunity came to them, whereby they wereenabled to traverse the course of the great Missouri River from itsmouth to its far-away source among the Rocky Mountains.

  What this opportunity was like, and what astonishing things they metwith on the long and dangerous journey, I have endeavored to describeand set down between the covers of this present book. I trust that youwill enjoy reading it fully as well as you did the preceding volumes;and that at some date in the near future we may meet again in the pagesof still another story of boy pioneer life.

  HARRISON ADAMS.

  _April 15th, 1914._