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100 1 _aOtis, James,
_d1848-1912
245 1 4 _aThe Minute Boys of the Wyoming Valley
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-09
508 _aAaron Adrignola, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _aThe Minute Boys of the Wyoming Valley by James Otis is a historical adventure novel written in the early 20th century. Set on the Pennsylvania frontier during the American Revolution, it follows sixteen-year-old Jonathan Ogden and a band of teenage “Minute Boys” who defend their valley against Tories and Mohawk allies gathering at Wintermoot’s Fort. The story blends siege craft, scouting, and rescue with themes of loyalty, courage, and makeshift soldiering. The opening of the novel frames the real-world strife over Wyoming Valley’s land claims and fort-building before shifting to Jonathan’s first-person account. He organizes a twenty-two–boy company, mans Fort Jenkins with scant ammunition, and faces a tightening ring of Mohawk scouts while quelling a near-mutiny after a settler’s sister is seized. Elias Shendle scouts Wintermoot’s, Jonathan slips through the lines, and the veterans’ ally Simon Bartlett joins him; together they fight off a lone attacker and dash back under fire. A night assault follows: Indians feint at the river, scale the gate, and the boys beat them back in brutal hand-to-hand combat, suffering one death and several wounds. Taking advantage of the lull, Bartlett, Giles March, and the girl’s brother pull off a stealth rescue by river and snatch provisions from the lodges; refugees then reach the fort with supplies, and the defenders confer soberly, bracing for the larger Tory-Indian force rumored to be advancing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Dana Estes & Company, 1906
653 _aUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aWyoming Valley (Pa.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aShute, A. B.
_q(Augustus Burnham),
_d1851-1906
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015085435314&view=1up&seq=9
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76656
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