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050 4 _aPZ
100 1 _aPearson, C. H.
_q(Charles Henry),
_d1824-1906
245 1 4 _aThe young pioneers of the North-west
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThe frontier series
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-13
520 _a"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890
653 _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aAnimal welfare -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFrontier and pioneer life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aHorses -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCourtship -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aNorthwest, Old -- History -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aPioneer children -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aIndians of North America -- Northwest, Old -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aDwarfs (Persons) -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aWhite people -- Relations with Indians -- Juvenile fiction
830 0 _aThe frontier series
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78432
999 _c119152
_d119152