Keywords: bookid:storiesofpioneer00bass bookidstoriesofpioneer00bass bookyear:1900 bookyear1900 bookdecade:1900 bookdecade1900 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:bass__florence bookauthorbassflorence booksubject:frontier_and_pioneer_life booksubjectfrontierandpioneerlife bookpublisher:boston__d_c__heath___co_ bookpublisherbostondcheathco bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:32 bookleafnumber32 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:americana bookcollectionamericana drawing monochrome text sketch surreal bookid:storiesofpioneer00bass bookidstoriesofpioneer00bass bookyear:1900 bookyear1900 bookdecade:1900 bookdecade1900 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:bass__florence bookauthorbassflorence booksubject:frontier_and_pioneer_life booksubjectfrontierandpioneerlife bookpublisher:boston__d_c__heath___co_ bookpublisherbostondcheathco bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:32 bookleafnumber32 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:americana bookcollectionamericana drawing monochrome text sketch surreal Identifier: storiesofpioneer00bass Title: Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Bass, Florence Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath & Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: d seen. A whiteman showed them a queer-looking stick. Hepoured some black sand into his hand and theninto a hole in this stick. He took a round thins:out of a bag and put this also into the stick. The Indians watched him very closely. Thewhite man beo-an to make strange sisms to theIndians; but they did not understand. He madea loud noise with his mouth and pointed to thestick. He put his finger on the under part of it andmotioned for the Indians to do the same. Oneof the Indians did so and there was a terriblecrash. The Indians were very much frightened forthey had never seen or heard a gun before.They were not long in learning the power ofthis queer stick. The white men showed them their knives andaxes, and how to use them. The Indians weresurprised to see how quickly a white man cut alog in two with a big axe. They wanted guns, The Coming of the White Man. 17 knives, and axes themselves. They soon foundthat the white men would give them these thingsin exchange for skins of animals. Text Appearing After Image: KNIVES AND AXES. III. INDIANS AND HORSES. Once a man was in camp near an unfriendlytribe of Indians. He had not been able to killany game for some time, and so he had no food.At last he decided to ride into the Indians campand offer to exchange his horse for food. This tribe of Indians had never seen horses.As the man came riding in, an old chief said: Here is something very strange. I have heardof many wonderful things; but I have neverheard of anything like this. This thing musthave come from the sun or out of the earth. Donot say anything to it. Be still and wait. If wetry to hurt it, perhaps it will go into that hill i8 Stories of Pioneer Life. At first the Indians were very much frightened,but as it came nearer they saw that it was a manriding a strange animal. The man patted the horses neck, and madesigns to show that he was friendly. At last hemade the Indians understand that he had beenwithout food for a long time, and would give Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: storiesofpioneer00bass Title: Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Bass, Florence Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath & Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: d seen. A whiteman showed them a queer-looking stick. Hepoured some black sand into his hand and theninto a hole in this stick. He took a round thins:out of a bag and put this also into the stick. The Indians watched him very closely. Thewhite man beo-an to make strange sisms to theIndians; but they did not understand. He madea loud noise with his mouth and pointed to thestick. He put his finger on the under part of it andmotioned for the Indians to do the same. Oneof the Indians did so and there was a terriblecrash. The Indians were very much frightened forthey had never seen or heard a gun before.They were not long in learning the power ofthis queer stick. The white men showed them their knives andaxes, and how to use them. The Indians weresurprised to see how quickly a white man cut alog in two with a big axe. They wanted guns, The Coming of the White Man. 17 knives, and axes themselves. They soon foundthat the white men would give them these thingsin exchange for skins of animals. Text Appearing After Image: KNIVES AND AXES. III. INDIANS AND HORSES. Once a man was in camp near an unfriendlytribe of Indians. He had not been able to killany game for some time, and so he had no food.At last he decided to ride into the Indians campand offer to exchange his horse for food. This tribe of Indians had never seen horses.As the man came riding in, an old chief said: Here is something very strange. I have heardof many wonderful things; but I have neverheard of anything like this. This thing musthave come from the sun or out of the earth. Donot say anything to it. Be still and wait. If wetry to hurt it, perhaps it will go into that hill i8 Stories of Pioneer Life. At first the Indians were very much frightened,but as it came nearer they saw that it was a manriding a strange animal. The man patted the horses neck, and madesigns to show that he was friendly. At last hemade the Indians understand that he had beenwithout food for a long time, and would give Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: storiesofpioneer00bass Title: Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Bass, Florence Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath & Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: d seen. A whiteman showed them a queer-looking stick. Hepoured some black sand into his hand and theninto a hole in this stick. He took a round thins:out of a bag and put this also into the stick. The Indians watched him very closely. Thewhite man beo-an to make strange sisms to theIndians; but they did not understand. He madea loud noise with his mouth and pointed to thestick. He put his finger on the under part of it andmotioned for the Indians to do the same. Oneof the Indians did so and there was a terriblecrash. The Indians were very much frightened forthey had never seen or heard a gun before.They were not long in learning the power ofthis queer stick. The white men showed them their knives andaxes, and how to use them. The Indians weresurprised to see how quickly a white man cut alog in two with a big axe. They wanted guns, The Coming of the White Man. 17 knives, and axes themselves. They soon foundthat the white men would give them these thingsin exchange for skins of animals. Text Appearing After Image: KNIVES AND AXES. III. INDIANS AND HORSES. Once a man was in camp near an unfriendlytribe of Indians. He had not been able to killany game for some time, and so he had no food.At last he decided to ride into the Indians campand offer to exchange his horse for food. This tribe of Indians had never seen horses.As the man came riding in, an old chief said: Here is something very strange. I have heardof many wonderful things; but I have neverheard of anything like this. This thing musthave come from the sun or out of the earth. Donot say anything to it. Be still and wait. If wetry to hurt it, perhaps it will go into that hill i8 Stories of Pioneer Life. At first the Indians were very much frightened,but as it came nearer they saw that it was a manriding a strange animal. The man patted the horses neck, and madesigns to show that he was friendly. At last hemade the Indians understand that he had beenwithout food for a long time, and would give Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: storiesofpioneer00bass Title: Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Bass, Florence Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath & Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: d seen. A whiteman showed them a queer-looking stick. Hepoured some black sand into his hand and theninto a hole in this stick. He took a round thins:out of a bag and put this also into the stick. The Indians watched him very closely. Thewhite man beo-an to make strange sisms to theIndians; but they did not understand. He madea loud noise with his mouth and pointed to thestick. He put his finger on the under part of it andmotioned for the Indians to do the same. Oneof the Indians did so and there was a terriblecrash. The Indians were very much frightened forthey had never seen or heard a gun before.They were not long in learning the power ofthis queer stick. The white men showed them their knives andaxes, and how to use them. The Indians weresurprised to see how quickly a white man cut alog in two with a big axe. They wanted guns, The Coming of the White Man. 17 knives, and axes themselves. They soon foundthat the white men would give them these thingsin exchange for skins of animals. Text Appearing After Image: KNIVES AND AXES. III. INDIANS AND HORSES. Once a man was in camp near an unfriendlytribe of Indians. He had not been able to killany game for some time, and so he had no food.At last he decided to ride into the Indians campand offer to exchange his horse for food. This tribe of Indians had never seen horses.As the man came riding in, an old chief said: Here is something very strange. I have heardof many wonderful things; but I have neverheard of anything like this. This thing musthave come from the sun or out of the earth. Donot say anything to it. Be still and wait. If wetry to hurt it, perhaps it will go into that hill i8 Stories of Pioneer Life. At first the Indians were very much frightened,but as it came nearer they saw that it was a manriding a strange animal. The man patted the horses neck, and madesigns to show that he was friendly. At last hemade the Indians understand that he had beenwithout food for a long time, and would give Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |