The young pioneers of the North-west: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The young pioneers of the North-west is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Pearson, C. H. (Charles Henry) (1824–1906).
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"The young pioneers of the North-west" by C. H. Pearson is a frontier adventure novel written in the late 19th century. It follows a circle of young protagonists on the Minnesota frontier—most notably Alice McElroy, Tom Jones, and the Willard brothers—as they meet danger, hardship, and moral tests amid prairies, rivers, and encampments. Expect Indian-captivity peril, immigrant trials, and strong themes of faith, courage, and temperance woven into fast-moving episodes. The opening of the story introduces Alice McElroy, a fort commander’s daughter, who rides out alone, is seized by a lurking Indian near a riverside grove, and briefly escapes from a hidden wigwam before being recaptured just as soldiers search the area, led in part by her devoted pony. The scene then shifts to the Willard family emigrating from Maine: in the night on a Mississippi steamer the father disappears after a covert assault, leaving his wife, three sons (Ferdinand, Georgie, and the sensitive, sharp-witted hunchback Frankie), and austere Aunt Esther stranded with little money. A young frontier-bred student, Tom Jones, steps in, counsels prudence and faith, and helps equip the family with an immigrant wagon and team to seek health and a land claim on the open prairie while notices go out for the missing man. As Tom travels on by stage, a comic-turned-pointed temperance episode ends in a drunken driver overturning the coach; Tom urges reform, then continues toward the woods, where he encounters a strikingly beautiful chief’s daughter, hinting at new entanglements as this first section closes.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The young pioneers of the North-west
- Author credits: Pearson, C. H. (Charles Henry) (1824–1906)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction
- Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Courtship -- Juvenile fiction
- Dwarfs (Persons) -- Juvenile fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Juvenile fiction
- Horses -- Juvenile fiction
- Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old -- Juvenile fiction
- Northwest, Old -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Pioneer children -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- White people -- Relations with Indians -- Juvenile fiction
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