WT Le URAC UST e LcdBUILD YOUR OWN LIBRARY COLLECT AND PRESERVE YOUR COPIES OF CLASSICS IN AN ATTRACTIVE, PERMANENT BINDER ANDSOME, durable, permanent—made to last a lifetime of han- dling. Each binder holds 12 books securely. Each is covered in beautiful, brown simulated leather and is richly imprinted in gold on both cover and backbone. Simple instructions make binding possible in a matter of minutes. GET YOURS $900 eacu NOW & POSTPAID Fil Gaccurscisseel aap oie _MAIL NOW! TODAY! _ GILBERTON CO., Inc. DEPT. S 101 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK 3, N. Y. IN CANADA: GILBERTON CO. (CANADA) LTD. BOX 311 TERMINAL “A‘ TORONTO 1, CAN. Herewith is $ Please send binders, postpaid. Name. (PLEASE PRINT Address Ce erie Stote,DANIEL BOONE ~ MASTER of Che WILDERNESS By JOHN BAKELESS VER THE “WARRIORS” PATH” HE LEO-THE AND OF SETTLE Eas WESTWARD, TOWARD VIRGIN FORESTS AND LURKIN YET THE HARDY PIONEER FOLK FOLLOWED HIM WHE: | He MieHT LEAD. FoR THEY KNEW No OTHER COULD MEE PRIVATION, DANGER AND EVEN DEATH WITH SO MUCH COURAGE: ENDURANCE, PATIENCE AND INTELLIGENCE AS DANIEL BOON: J Puptatied by orrong | WWDERNESS by John Marrow & Compe 1939 by John Bo!CLASSICS Pllustrated "20 . ne etree FARMING ices AO WAN Ce. oan Ae BORN ON. 7. Gu acomoy 10 racuns, THE ELDER QOONE ALSO RAN BLACKSMITH GHOP, WHERE DANE YOU.00 WELL AT THE FORGE, SQUIRE, BUT I DO BETTER IN THE WOODS. SEE HERE!DANIEL BOONE LAPP HE CRUDE AGRICULTURE OF THE PERIOD EXHAUSTED THE LAND QUICKLY, AND THE GOOD, LAND IN PENNSYLVANIA WAS FILLING UB. IN THE SPRING OF 1750, DANIEL'S FATHER SOLD HIS LAND AND STARTEO SOUTHWARD ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA. Boa cone ike say Me REACH. 7! KIN Ve THE Oe AROLINA, IN NOR TINATION YOU'LL HAVE ATME BEATING THAT ‘SHOT, DANIEL,CLASSICS Illustrated Boeus scr OVER his DEF TAT THE HANDS OF A WHITE MA) Me's gOVE AWAY.) Sane anes WHERE BOONE? mE KILLUM ! IME SETTLER HURRIED OFF. WHEN THE ELDER BOONE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE... INTENTIONS ANO || DISAPPEARED, MIGHT BE AMBUSHED BY THE Ie SETTLER, WORRIED THAT DANIEL INDIAN, HURRIED TO THE 800NE CABIN. WELL. TUL GET HIM FIRST!DANIEL BOONE rH PAINFUL SLOWNESS, A SUPPLY ROUTE WAS HEWN OUT OF THE FORE: OVER THIS ‘ROAD, MARCHED ENDLESS COLUMNS OF BRITISH TROOPS IW A Lone eur Bette SS MT FORT DUGUEBNE, SCOUTS ALREADY HAD BROUGHT] "ADVANI nee eS WORD OF THE HUGE BRITISH FORCE ADVANCING LISTENED 70 TALES OF His COMPAN- 10M. WAGONER, JOHN FINLEY... WE ARE NOT ENOUGH! WE SHALL BEOVERWKEL MED! ‘DAN'L THERE'S A UNLESS... YES, We SHALL F | HUNTER'S PARADISE A FIGHT LIKE OUR INDIAN WESTWARD INKENTUCKY. BROTHERS / THERE ARE DEER, BEARS, Mf ly BUFFALO, GAME OF EVERY KINO JUST FOR IERAL BRADDOCK SENT OUT AN ADVANCE PARTY UNDER GENERAL. GAGE. AT TURTLE CREEK, NOT FAR FROM FORT CUQUESNE.CLASSICS Pllushrated BACK DESPERATELY, DESPITE HEAVY LOSSES, THEY HELD THE STRONE FREUCH AND_INDIAN ADVANCE GUARD UNTIL GENERAL BRADDOCK AND Hi6 HUGE FORCE CAME TO THE RESCUE, THERE WAS NO RESCUING TO BE CONE THAT DAY, THOUGH. BRADDOCK UP AUD DOWN LIKE A MAN GONE MAD, We HAD GEEM SCHOOLED IN THE BEST ELROFEAN TRADITION AUD DIQUT KNOW Auy= THING ABOUT FIGHTING IN THE WILDERNESS. HE KEPT iG MEN OUT IN THE OPEN THEIR RED UNIFORMS MAKING PERFECT TARGETS FOR THE FRENCH AUD THER INDIAN ALLIES. FINALLY, BRADDOCK, HMBELE WAG HIT... FORWARD, YOU w SCOLNDRELS, FORINARD/ ADVAN AGH HH Ams BAYDANIEL BOONE oD WAECKERS SAN THE TERRORIZED BRIT WE POURS, BACK NN WILD RETREAT... BT FELON MinrANEN, CoER THe COMMAND OF FEARLESS, YOUNG COLONEL GEORGE WASHINSTON™ OF VIRGINIA, WERE WSE TO. THE INDEN TACTICS AMD WIP DREW IN ORDERLY RETRER MRTHE FUTURE PREGOENT OF THE UNTED. STATES OF AMERICA ee Ricans aia UP sRENaDIERS WHO HAD SURRENDERED WERE LET Mii BY “HE FRENCH TO BE TORTURED 8Y THE INDIANS.CLASSICS Pilustrated JOLLOWING BRACOOCK'S DEFEAT, DANIEL RETURNED TO THE YADKIN VALLEY TO FORGET THE HORRORS HE HAD SEEN. ‘HIS NEXT YEARS WERE SPENT NORMALLY ENOUGH FOR A FRONTIERGMAN OF THOSE TIMES: JE MARRIED REBECCA ‘BRYAN ON AUGUST 14, UCH CF (786; HE WAS TWENTY-Two, | SPENT IN HUNTING. HIS WIFE SEVENTEEN. PONE Sani arbtterEantee’s seorncre La, Witt REE CaMe: KEEPERS, JOSEPH HOLDEN, Waiace MOOvEY AND WiLuiAM COOLEY, STARTED OUT MaV 1.769, FOR A HINTING TRIO IN KENTUCKY, LEAVING SQUIRE BOONE TO GET IN THE CROPS AND FOLLOW LATER...- VER THE mete calto KENTUCKY, couNTt with ONC COURAG! UNE 71H, THEY SET aBouT con. STRUGTING A SHELTER ON THE KENTUCKY RIVER ANO CALLED IT “STATION CAME CREEK,” DECEMBER 22, 1769, HOWEVER, DANIEL AND JOHN STUART WERE CAPTURED BY # ROVING BAKO OF INDIALE. WUCER THE THREAT OF BENG KILLED, BOONE LED THE NinAUs| 70 WARN PALEY AMO THE OTHERS AWAY. HAD ACQUIRED A FINE Sle CANE KEEPERS WERE FRIGHTENED AND FINLEY TOOK THE JOB OF GUIDING THEI HOME. BCOME AUD STEWART, HOWEVER, IGNORED THE MOINS" THREAT AD STAYED OX ONE DRY, $QUIRE BOONE JOWED THEM, BIG HILL AND LOOKED DOWN INTO THE RICH, LEVEL LAND THAT HE HAG COME TO FIND. AND RIFLES, THE INOENE BOONE AUD STUART, GIVING THEM, BUT ONE RIFLE AND A $UPRLY OF LY AFTERWARDS, JOHN STUART DISAPPEARED WHILE HUNTING AND WAS NEVER FOUND. DANIEL AND SQUIRE STAYED ON AND PILED UP NEW STOCKS. IN MARCH, 77, DANIEL AND SQUIRE TURNED HOMEWARD.CLASSICS Plstrated ND $0, AFTER THO ARQUOUS WILDERNESS, DANIEL BOOK LITTLE, IF ANY, BETTER OFF... ONES. GTORIEG OF THE GLORIES AND BENEFITS YAINTUCK” APPEALED JUST BEFORE CUMBERLAND GAP, THE PARTY STOPPED AT POWELL'S ‘SPREAD BLANKETS AND WENT TO SLEEP, JAMES FOUND COLONEL WILLIAM RUSSELL EASILY ENOUGH. WITH RUSSELL'S SON, HENRY, TWO, TELL OAN'L TLL) BE ALONG Ri6HT | *\DANIEL BOONE DAWN, THERE CAME 4 SHRILL, SLEEP-SHATTERINE WAR WHOOP THE AWOKE WITH A START; K wag L ENDED THE JOURNEY UNTIL OUT THE "WILDERNESS: ROAD" INTO KENTUCKY,IHE WEAKER SPIRITS IN BOONE'S PARTY GAVE UP (AND STARTED HOME, BUT NOT THE BOONES, OR THE BRYANS, OR THE CALLAWAYS. AG THE JOURNEY, PROGRESSED, ROMANCE BLOSSOMED FORTH... JEMIMA! COME HERE / ie Faerie We exoU? D0 Was cxsaiize 4 uisTA WITH COLONEL CALLAWAY A& ITS COMMANDER, DAMEL BOONE WAG GIVEN THEDANIEL BOONE Y EARLY SUMMER OF 1776, BOONESBOROUGH FELT FAIRLY SECURE, ON SUNDAY, JULY 7TH, AFTER BIBLE READING, JEMIMA BOONE, WITH BETSEY AND FANNY CALLAWAY, STROLLED DOWN TO THE RIVER, JEMIMA WAS SUFFERING FROM AN INJURED FOOT, RECEIVED |g FROM STEPPING ON A SHARP CANE STUBBLE, ‘ BY Loox Wipe INDIANS / i AGAINGT THE CURRENT. BEFORE : S LONG, THEY FOUND THEMSELVES |CLASSICS IUiushrated Ti) SHORT WAY FROM THE RIVER. YES, AND YOU ARE CHER S$ | hanes maw. oU'RE A FRIEND. OF DANIEL BOONE, WELL, WELL, OUR FATHER. YOU'VE BEEN LITTLE souaws, ALL SISTERS F COME, WE GO TO 1 WOULD RATHER THE INDIANS MIGHT EASILY HAVE KILLED THE HANGING MAW'S [7] DIE THAN WALiC GIRLS ; BUT, FORTUNATELY, HANGING MAW CAMP. ANYWHERE ON THIS | | WAS IN GOOD HUMOR AND, INSTEAD, PROVIDED SORE FOOT OF MINE) | EANNY AND JEMIMA WITH. 50. YOU MAY AS WELL KILL US HERE. women eee SEY ADE matics Wire TRA (Jersey wane mares NTE TRAL TTenima Tore A PECE IND DROPPED Ir ot peter eae | NRE eS ‘ fo eeDANIEL BOONE JEMIMA BOONE MADE HER SOREFOOT THE EXCUSE FOR FREQUENT FALLS AND LOUD SCREAMING, INTENDED FOR way YOU WHITE EARS THAT MIGHT BE LISTENING. NOT come Rie | FOOT! T CANT THE INDIANS ENCOUNTERED A STRAY Fas WALK ANY PONY. IN THE WOODS AND CAPTURED IT, FASTER / HE °S FRE TAKING CESPERATE CHANCES WHEN THEY TRIED TO FOOL THe | NOUNS. AT ANOTHER TIME, THEY MiGHT HAVE CEN TOMAWANKED. BU? A TF HAPPENED. THOUGH THE GIRLS KNEW ‘AT LAST, THEINDIANS SENT THE FINALLY, THEY BECAME ALLABOUT HORSES, ONE HORSE AWAY AND FORCED THE SUSPICIOUS AND KNOCKED WAS CONTINUALLY GIRLS TO HURRY ALONG ON FOOT... THE HEELS OFF BETSEY'S "FALLING OFF * a [7 (25, enost EVENING BEFORE THe GIRLS WERE MISSED. FLANDERS CALLAWAY WENT TO THE RIVER TO. LOOK FOR THEM... Bi crn caci se i GIRLS ARE GONG! I Secu eee Gis DAT wienT. cane Ws Have ABGUT THELIE Mikes PROM THOR THE GIRLS THE MORNING WOULD BRING: ROUND UP THE MEN, SON! I'm GOING TO THE RIVER TO HAVE A LOOK!CLASSICS Illustrated IF THE INDIANS HEARD US APPROACHING, THEY'O BE SURE TO TOMAHAWK THE GIRLS. YOU HORSEMEN RIDE FOR LICKING RIVER AND LIE IN AMBUSH, MEANWHILE, THE REST OF US WILL FOL- LOW THE TRAIL ON FOOT, JANIet. BOONE AND FIVE MEN is gest THaT we i GO STRAIGHT AFTER. THEM! WITH LUCK, WE CAN RIDE THEM JETER RESTING FOR THE NIGHT, THEY, WERE AWAY AGAIN AT DAWN. THAT EVENING... Sorry sno SILENTLY, THE PueUens TRAVELED TRTY MiLEE THAT OMY BEFORE DARK... Lok! THERE'S. A PIECE OF SEMIAA'S Bx THE SINGLE MOTION HAD WARNED THE INDIAN SENTRY.DANIEL BOONEBe wet His HA we Fs Ma cuaven, 4 = SPEAROED. FACE-~, SS mul a CALLAWAY WERE TOO SOUNS FoR MARRIASE | THEN, BUT THEY. BECAME ENGAGED* JEMIMA AND FLANDERS, FANNY AND JOHN HOLOER 2DANIEL BOONE THE END OF 1776, THE SHAWNEES NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER GREW ALARMED OVER THE SPREAD OF THE WHITE SETTLEMENTS IN KENTUCKY, RAIDING PARTIES: WREAKED HAVOC, ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE SETTLERS WHO HAD NO STOCKADE i FONG SIMON KENTON, ONE OF THE MOST SKILLFUL WILDERNESS SCOUTS, WENT OUT FROM BCONESBOROUGH 70 LEARN IF SOME AMMUNITION OBTAINED FROM VIRGIN’A AND CACHED NEAR THE OHIO WAS SAFE. HE NOT ONL FOUND. THE AMMUNITION, BUT. B§CT WNT APRIL, W777, OD THE INDIANG STRIKE BOONESEOROUGH, TWO MEN WERE ATTACKED CLTGIOE THE STOCKADE. DANIEL AND A DOZEN OTHERS WENT CHARGING 7 THEIR AgsiSTANCE. IT WAS A SHANNEE TRAP. A$ SOON 45 DANIEL AND His MEN WERE CLEAR OF THE STOCKADE, HUNDREDS OF INDIANG ATTACKED. BOYS, WE'LL HAVE TO FIGHT OUR WAY BACK! SELL YOUR, LIVES AS DEARLY A AS Possisie!CLASSICS Dllusdrated oe pilia BOONESROROUGH MEN GUCCESEFULLY IN) JANUARY, 1778, DANIEL BOONE REACHED THE STOCKADE AND, HELD OFF LED A GROUP OF THIRTY MEN TO THE INDIANS, -IT WAS A PRELUDE TO. TROUBLE; BLUE LICKS ON THE LickING RIVER, BUT FOR THE TIME BEING, THEY WERE SAFE, HERE, THE WATER FROM SALT BY MIO-SUMMER, RE-ENFORCEMENTS FROM SPRINGS WAS BOILED DOWN TO VIRGINIA FINALLY BEGAN TO ARRIVE. —— OBTAIN SALT NECESSARY FOR CURING MEAT AND HIDES, AS WELL AS FOR FLAVORING FOOD, —— ETURNING ALONG THE RWER, DANIEL WAS ATTACKEL BY FOUR SHAWNEE SCOUTS. HE LEFT HIS HORSE AND RAN; BUT AFTER A HALF MILE, HE REALIZED THAT ESCAPE IN THE SNOW WAS IMPOSSIBLE. LOOK, BROTHERS! THIS BOONE: [ie eenet's oury 70 prowze REOD FOR THE PARTY. ONE DaY,iN EARLY FEBRUARY, HE WENT OUT TO HUNT AND TEND HIS TRAPLINES... jh sal il a | THEY ARE MY MEN. YOU CAPTURE. MY MEN NOW. DO NOT KILL ORTOR: TURE. IN SPRING, Z PROMISE TO GIVE YOU FORT, WOMEN, CHILOREN, MANY WARRIORS.DANIEL BOONE WAS BITTER FOR DANIEL. TO SURRENDER HIS MEN TO THE INDIANS. BUT IT SAVED THER LIVES; ANO FOR THE TIME BEING, IT SAVED WEAKLY- DEFENDED B00NESEOROUSH.. rs CAPTURING CHIEF, BLACKFISH, WA: PROUD OF HIS PRISONER, FOR DANIEL BOONE HAD GREAT PRESTIGE AS HUNTER AND WOOOSMAN. BLACKFISH ADOPTED. DANIEL AS HIS OWN SON, PLUCKING OUT HIS HAIR AND NAMING HIM "SHELTOWEE™ (MEANING BIG TURTLE), AND GIVING Hist MANY PRNILEGES. "HE WILY INDIANS FURNISHED " SHELTOWEE™ WITH AMMUNITION FOR BUNTING BUT WEIGHED OUT JUST ENOUGH FOR HIS NEEDS. BOONE, HOWEVER, DEPENDED ON HIS SUPERIOR MARKSMANSHIP AND USEO ONLY HALE THE USUAL AMOUNT, HIDING THE REST... INE COMPLETELY FOOLED THE SHAWNEES, WHO THOUGHT HE REALLY HAD BECOME ONE OF THEM, UNFORTUNATELY, HIS OWN MEN MISUNDERSTOOD... TTS FUNNY “THE WAY DAN'L IS TREATED. IF I HAO THOUGHT HE'D TURN AGAINST US THIS WAY, THOSE YELLOWSKING WOULD HAVE HAD A 3 FIGHT UPAT BLUE LICKS / UT THE ADOPTED SON OF BLACKFISH WENT [Become re oven ON THE TURKEY NTS SCARING Tie oR0e Wine Rees, JE JOINEO HEARTULY IN. THE TARSET SHOOTING, BUT WAS CAREFUL NOT TO EXCEL THE OTHERS. Wiis 2aierry as a cunsura ‘STOOD HIM IN GOOD STEAD. HE: REPAIRED THE INDIAN RIFLES,CLASSICS PUusdrated IRING ONE OF THOSE HUNTS IN XJUNE, 1778, FOUR ISING THE BECS OF RUNNING STREAMS TO COVER HIS TRACKS, DANIEL RODE UNTIL HIS HORSE’ GAVE OUT, THEN HE WENT ON FOOT. IN ALL, HE COVERED "THE ONE HUNDRED ‘AND SIXTY MILES TO BOONES+ BOROUGH IN FOUR DAYS... DADDY! DADDY! MOTHER THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD AND TOOK LITTLE DAN BACK TO YADKIN VALLEY WITH HER. REPAIRS AND THE DIGGING OF 4 WELL INSIDE , THE ENCLOBURE.,! INDIAN TERRITORY, RETURNING ON SEPTEMBER 5, HE HAD TO sup Past INDIAN LINES 70 REACH HOME. THE | next day.DANIEL BOONE ‘YOU HAVE NOT KEPT 1 AM NOLONGER YOUR PROMIGE CHIEF; BUT Z WILL, STOSURRENOER, [__] TRY TO PERSUADE SHELTOWEE. [~ THe Were THE SHAWNEES THAT THEIR KENTUCKY LAND HAD BEEN PURCHASED EROM THE CHEROKEES. THIS SEEMED TO SATISFY BLACKFISH, FOR HE CAME WITH SOME BRAVES 70 SIGN A PEACE TREATY. WHEN IT WAS OVER. NOW WE SHAKE HANDS, BROTHER: BURY TOMAHAWK. THis DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A HAND | SHAKE To ME! BBencs kvew THERE WOULD BE NO SURRENDER, BUT HE WAS PLAYING FOR TIME, SCOUTS KENTON AND MONTGOMERY HAD HASTENED TO THE OTHER SETTLEMENTS FOR HELP, MEAN= WHILE, WOMEN AND CHILOREN, DRESGED AS MEN, PARADED WITH THE OTHERS NEAR OPEN STOCK’ ADE GATES, TO GNE THE IMPRESSION Pink sence ars TasTENeo tO 2 Ga0b best ose Tuan a GestoaE C= exignbeie, Si aLanersn Suebenty suoiTee,CLASSICS PUlustratedDANIEL BOONE(D2, on 2072882 70 surRenceR, ‘BUT NO ONE IN THAT WRETCHED LITTLE GROUP EXPECTED TO LIVE MORE THAN A DAY OR TWO. (T WAS 0 DARK |DANIEL BOONE ga THE SCOUTS HAD RECONNOITERED THE WE SIEGE WAS HAROLY PAST WHEN SUSPICIONS 8 0005 ANC DISCOVERED THAT THE ENEMY IANO JEALOUSIES BROKE OUT, COL. RICHARD HAD REALLY GONE, THE HALE-STARVED CALLAWAY, UNCLE OF FLANDERS CALLAWAY AND CATTLE WERE LET OUT TO GRAZE, THE LONG A FRIEND OF DANIEL BOONE, SPOKE VEHEMENTLY. SETTLERS THEMSELVES STROLLED ABOUT THE CLEARING 70 STRETCH THEIR WEARY LESS. I THINK IT WAS DOWN- RIGHT TREASON, DANIEL. HAVING 50 MUCH TO DO SAY HE SHOULD. BE COYRT- MARTIALED! TERE WAS NOTHING 70 D0 BUT HOLD A FORMAL TRIAL, AT WHICH COL. CALLAWAY Mal HIS ACCUSATIONS, T SAY DANIEL BOONE COMPELLED OUR MEN. JO SURRENDER AT THE SALT LICKS; THAT HE WAS IN LEAGUE WITH THE BRITISH? THAT HE RISKED OUR MEN'S. LIVES INUBELESS MEETINGS WITH THE INDIANS QUTOF SIGHT OF THE FORT! ‘SURE L SURRENDERED THE MEN ATSALT LICKS; THAT'S WHY THEY'RE ALIVE TODAY! CERTAINLY I PRETENDED TO BE FRIENOLY WITH THE BRITISH ; T WAS DECEIVING THEM! I GOT BACK TO WARN OU, DION'T| I? OF COURSE T ARRANGED TO MEET BLACKFISH ATA DISTANCE FROM THE STOCK ADE, WE NEEDEDTIME TO GET DEFENSES| ‘YOU'VE BEEN FOUND’ NOT GUILTY, DANIEL! ALMOST EVERYBOOY HERE IS GLAD, TOO!CLASSICS PUusdrated APHERE WAS COMFORT IN His ACQUITTAL ANO THE FACT THAT HE WAS IMMEDIATELY, PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF MAJOR. JECAUSE OF HIS ABSENCE IN THE EAST, DANIEL MISSED JOHN BOWMAN'S ATTACK.ON THE SHAWNEES AT LITTLE CHILLICOTHE IN THE SPRING OF I79, ‘BOWMAN HAD FOUR COMPANIES, ABOUT TWO HUNDRED MEN, CLEARED OF THE CHARGES, HE HURRIED OFF TO THE SETTLEMENTS TOFINO REPECCA AND THE CHILDREN LING. COMFORTABLY ENOUGH IN A SMALL CABIN NEAR THATOF WILLIAM BRYAN. OF te mowenr, THe suannces were ven WEAK. MANY OF THEM HAVING GONE Ba. TO. THE MISSIESIPP? TO SETTLE. <.. BUT THE MILITIA STOOD THOSE OFF , 700, AND BLACKFISH HIMSELF WENT DOWN UNDER THE WOODSMEN'S RIFLES.GPE BEAR CRoPr ED ARTER A SHORT RUN, BUT JUST AS DANIEL REACHED THE CARCASS) HE HEARD SHOTS... WAIT WITH THE HORSES, a EOWARD. THAT BEAR INDIANS! THEY VE WON'TGOFAR.. EITHER KILLED EDWARD Tecra I OR TAKEN HIM PRISONER /CLASSICS Dlicsdrated 7 [Dae geniizen ne cous 00 narvine FoR Hs BROTHER AND HEADED FOR, THE NEAR CANESRAKE. HE HAD NOT RELA Ie THE BEAR, AND SN WA Hy LN J N p WwW 3s Tas f\ << PE NEXT DAY, DANIEL LED A PARTY EY Dero te cont. TH FOUND EDWARD... DEAO, CONE THEN MADE HBP. ESCAPE THROUSHDANIEL BOONE JAPTAIN JOHN HOLDER, NO} CALLAWAY'6 HUSBAND, LEO AN | EXPEDITION TO RESCUE THE BOYS... NTO THE OTHER, 6, JOHN. Z'LL GET AS MANY MEN AS POSSIBLE AT BCONES- &CLASSICS Pllusdrated NEL BENJAMIN LOGAN COLLECTED QT BRvAN'S STATION, A LARGE SETTLEMENT, VE HUNDRED MOUNTED MiLiTIAMEN MEN WERE GETTING READY FOR THE CHASE. 70 PURGUE AND PUNIBH THE INDIANS FOR THEIR ATTACK ON HOY'S STATION, ¢ BROTHERS, THE LONG KNIVES * HAVE OVERRUN YOUR COUNTRY AND USURPED YOUR HUNTING GROUNDS, UNLESS YOU MB ZA FiSe AND EXTERMINATE THEIR WHOLE RACE YOU MAY BIDBOODBYE 70 THE HUNTING GROUNDS. OBJECTIVE WAS BRYAN'S STATION, FOUR S HUNDRED WARRIORS TOOK COUNCL, AS SIMON GIRTY, THE "WHITE INDIAN” SPOKE... * WHITE MEN. $0 CALLED BECAUSE OF THE LONG KNIVES, CARRIED BY MOST WOOOSMEN IN THOSE TIMES. BAiTHoveH THe PEOPLE AT BRYAN'S STATION HAD.NOT THe LEAST SUSPICION OF AN IMPENONG ATTACK, SUQOENY THEY BECAME AWARE THAT INDIANS WERE ALL AROUND THEM... WHAT CAN ‘AND OUR. Water sures | we Do? THERE | | PRACTICALLY EXHAUETED! TO ARE LESS THAN| | GO QUT 70 THE SPRING IS TO WALK INTO AN AMBUSH! THEN IT 1S UP TOUS WOMEN TO 60 FOR WATER, AS WE DO EVERY ‘DAY, WE MUS PRETEND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW THEYDANIEL BOONE a GROUPS OF TWO OR THREE, ACTING 45 NATURALLY AS POSSIBLE, THE WOMEN AND GIRLS WENT FORTH FROM THE STOCKADE. 6acH WAS BAREFOOT BECAUSE SHE ‘COULD RUN FASTER THAT Wave \ THE NEEO aw. THE SPRING, THEY WERE OUT OF SIGHT OF THE FORT. THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF FEMININE CHATTER AND NO ONE ACTED AS IE SHE KNEW INDIANS WERE ALL ARQUND THEM. IN THE UNCERBRUGH, THE: INDIANS PEERED IN AMAZEMENT, IN EXULTATION. THE KENTUCK/ANS OID NOT SUSPECT IMPENDING ATTACK, OR THEY WOULON'T HAVE 7 THE FORT, THE MEN STOOD WATCHING BREATHLESSLY. THE WOMEN WERE ORAWING CLOSER AND CLOSER. NO SIGN i By Last, THE WOMEN AND GIRLS REGAINED THE OF ALARM OR HASTE NOW! THAT WOULD BE SARETY OF THE STOCKADE, THE INDIANS HAD LEFT THEM ALONE, THINKING THEY WOULD BE MADE PRISONERS LATER IN THE DAY ANYWAY. FATAL! HUNDREDS OF INDIAN RIFLES WOULD BLAZE IN AN INSTANT IF THE INDIANS! ‘SUSPICIONS WERE AROUSED.CLASSICS Pllusbrated as Bie mania USED TO SUCH RUSES, THIRTEEN | MEN, MAKING 4S MUCH NOISE AS POSSIBLE, WENT AFTER / et sR, THE THIRTEEN MEN | DDN THE “EAL” PARTY WERE 8Y THIS TIME RUNNING FORTHE STOCKADE WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT, TO AOD THEIR RIFLES TO THE DEFENSE OF THE STOCKADE. (F200 THE WNDeRERUSH CAME THE PANTED SAVAGES, CRYING "THEIR WAR WHOOP LITTLE SUGPECTING THAT. THEY THEMSELVES WERE RUNNING INTO 4 TRAP. SETTLERS: RIFLES CRACKED, STEADY WAS THE SETTLERS! FIRE THAT THE INDIANS COULD NOT GET NEAR ENOUGH TO USE THEIR TORCHES, INGTEAD, THEY GHOT FLAMING ARROWS. THE BABY! | E SiRE ARROW 01D RO MENTOR THE NINTH ONITEDDANIEL BOONE CAINSTHER CONTINGENT OF THIRTY MEN, COMING FROM LEXINGTON ON FOOT, RAN INTO A BAND OF INDIANS IN A CORNFIELD. THE CVERFOWERING ‘OPPOSITION WAG TOO GREAT FOR THEM, [LEPPEN THe Siese srarreD, THO scours, BAP THOMAS BALL AND NICHOLAS TOMLINEON RISKED THEIR LIVES IN A DESPERATE TRY TO, REACH LEXINGTON FOR HELP MADE IT. BY THO INTHE AFTERNOON, A SMALL COMPANY: REACHED BRYAN'S STATION. ARTILLERY COULD 00. GIRTY REC S ANSWER IN A RATHER UNEXPECTED MANNER, HOWEVER, —q COE EI oe (zunser 4 EVEN wits You ~ [ror's-ouen!| ite TRY DIPLOMACY, WORKING HIS WAY THROUGH THE GRASS, HE REACHED A BIS STUMP WITHIN FIVE YARDS OF THE FORT AND HAILED (75 DEFENDERS. ‘GURRENDER BRYAN'S STATION NOW, Z WILL PROTECT YOU. IF NoT, T WARN You, WE WILL Hav ARTILLERY HERE BY NIGHTFALL, THEY'RE GONE! THE | p REOSKINSCLASSICS Pllustrated (Pr NeL B00Ne LED WN THE MEN FROM BOONESEOROUGH, His SCOUTS HAD / SEEN ENOUGH INDIAN SI6NS” To Know / i! THAT THE ENEMY HAD RETREATED. al | Pre NEXT Day, MORE HELP ARRIVED, UNTIL. THERE WAS A FORCE OF ALMOST TWO HUNDRED wT BRYAN'S STATION. A COUNCIL OF WAR WAS HELD. IT'S NYOPINION WE OUGHT To WAITA DAY BEFORE GOING AFTER, ‘THE INDIANS, LOGAN WILL BE HERE WITH FIVE HUNDRED MORE THE INDIANS CAN GET ACROSS THE OHIO. DON'T BE TIMID, MeGARY, WE HAVE ENOUGH HERE To HANOLE THEM. ‘ALL WHO ARE NOT COWARDS, FOLLOW ME, AND T'LL SOON'SHOW YOU INDIANS! THEY'VE BEEN CONCEALING THEIR NUMBER BYTREAD- ING IN EACH OTHER'S TRACKS. AND T KNOW THAT HILL ACROSS THE RIVER. T'S A UKeLy PLACE FOR AN AMBUSH! OOD, you CALLED mE TIMID AT BRYAN'S STATION. Now WE'LL See! WE CAME TO FIGHT INDIANS. SO (panel. Boone Was UNEAS: THE MORE SIGN” HE SAW, THE LESS HE LIKED IT He SAID.TO COLONEL JOHW 000: "WE OUBHT To WAIT FOR LOSAN. THE INDIANS: INTEND 70. FIGHT US.” “HOW CO. YouKnow? " SCIPLINE WAS NOT PART OFA FRONTIERSMAN'S, ‘CODE, BOTH BOONE, WHO HAD BECOME 4 LIEUTENANT- COLONEL, AND COLONEL TODD WERE ‘MeGARY'S SUPERIORS, YET THE BEST THEY COULD. 00 WAS TO FOLLOW THEIR UNDULY ENTHUSIASTIC TROOPS AS THEY PLUNGED FORWARD WITH McGARY,DANIEL BOONEDANIEL BOONE GAR FTE THe B27 TLE, BOONE WENT STRAIGHT JO BOONE'S STATION. FIVE BAYS LATER, WITH LOSAN, WHO HAD ARRIVED WHEN THE FIGHT WAS OVER, HE RODE BACK TOTHE GLUE LICKS BATTLEGROUND, JANIEL FOUND ISRAEL'S BODY AND 700K. IT BACK 70 BOONES STATION. OF ALL THE HORRORS OF HIG LONG LIFE, THE BLUE LICKS EP/SCOE MADE THE DEEPEST IMPRESSION. UPON DANIEL. BOONE, THIRTY YEARS LATER, HE COULD NOT DEGCRIBE TEARS. HAD LAIN IN THE AUGUST HEAT FOR Hf = 20 ALNOST A WEEK AND COULD SCARCELY BE IDENTIFIED, THE MEN SCRAPED AWAY aS MUCH EARTHAS POSSIBLE AND BUILT A LONG, STONE WALL BEHIND WHICH THEY LAY THEIROEAD.AND. COVERED THE BODIES. IT WAS ALL THEYCOULDDO | ETER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, THE GOVERN- MENT REQUESTED THE INDIANS TO RELEASE ALL AMERICAN PRISONERS, THE INDIANS REFUSED, INSTEAD, THEY CONTINUED THEIR RAIDS ON THE SETTLEMENT AND TOOK NEW PRISONERS. THE SOLUTION WAS TO CAPTURE INDISN PRISONERS FOR EXCHANGE PURPOSES. DANIEL, BOONE WAS FART OF A LARGE FORCE WHICH ATTACKED THE NUMERICALLY WEAKER INDIANS,CLASSICS Dlustrated Bra eeme20 one OF me noMNS a5. | | PME. EXPEDITION KicieD ABOUT TWENTY | y TY) ONE OF THE GROUP WHO HAD KILLED WARRIORS AND CAPTURED SEVENTY OR EIGHi IND THAT PRISONERS, INCLUDING OLD CMIEF MOLUNTHA NOW HIME" THE WHO WAS 23 POWERFUL AS BLACKFISH HAD CANGBRAKE, BUT BEEN. IN THE PARTY WAS MAIOR MeGARY. Beroee any THEN HERE'S PAY TONE INCAMP MENT IN FULL TO +| Remenigee REALIZED WHAT SETTLE OUR ACCOUNT! THE BLUE HE WAS DOING, Licks: MeGARY DEFEAT? SEIZED AN AXE. Wh cazy wis aeeary ResaRcED GL; AS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BLUE LICKS DEREAT AND MANY STILL HATED HM, THE SLAUGHTER OF HOLUNTHA Was A VIOLATION OF ORDERS AND BROUGHT ABOUT NeGARYS COURT-MBRTIAL, BY WHICH HE WAS DEPRIVED OF His COMMISION. JE HAD OPENED THE LAND, CLEAREDIT, OEFENQED IT. TWO SONS AND A BROTHER HAD BEEN KILLED, A DAUSHTER HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED. YET OTHERS NOW OWNED WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS HIS.. THE COUNTRY Was TOO FULL OF PEOPLE, ANYWAY, THERE Was NO "ELBOW-ROOM" AS HE CALLED IT. WB anier.200ne Han Rover wove, aumars, ANG THE BRITISH... AND HAD WON. BUT IN (706, HE FOUND AN UNBEATABLE ADVERSARY. HE COULD NOT BEAT WHITE MEN WITH LEGAL CLAMS, TOHIS LAND, WHICH HE HAD NEVER LEGALLY. REGISTERED. He Was AT FiRST SURPRISED, THENDANIEL BOONE IN 1789, DANIEL CUT DOWN A HUSE TULIP POPLAR AND BUILT A LARGE DUGOUT CANOE. “WITH REBECCA, SQUIRE, SONS NATHAN AND DANIEL BOONE, JEMIMA ANO HER HUSBAND, FLANDERS CALLAWAY, WE D FRIENDS ANO NEIGHBORS, AS IN YEARS GONE BY, WENT ALONG TO MISSOURI. HIS FAMILY ANO FRIENOS WERE EVER READY TO "PULL UP STAKES" ANO SET OFF FOR A NEW SETTLEMENT AT A WORD FROM DANEL BOONE, STDCLASSICS llusbrated HIS TIME, THER! BRAKES TO HICE IN, TRACKED TO HIS CAMP. THAT NIGHT, THERE ¥iAS A SNOWSTORM, THE TRAPLINE IS 2M SAFE NOW. T'LLLIE HERE TILL THEY €0.DANIEL BOONE (wuy, T've BEEN CAMPING RIGHT. BR IT HAD ALL. BEEN EXCIING-- JUST LIKE EARLIER DAYS. OLD, WAS HE? HE HAD SHOWN WERE THE INDIANS, (ON LOOKING OVER THE GROUND, (cane. REALIZED, WHE WAR OF i@i2 CAME AND INDIAN TROUBLE FLARED AGAIN, AS IT HAD IN MARCH 18, 1813, REBECCA DIED IN OURING THE REVOLUTION. THEN TO IJEMIMA'S HOUSE, SHE WAS ILL ONLY DANIEL BOONE'S DISGUST... A WEEK, SHE AND OANIEL HAD TOGETHER FOR FIETY- SEVEN YEARS. WHAT DO YOU MEAN TM TOOOLD TO JOIN THE ARMY? T'M ONLY SEVENTY- EIGHT/ I CAN HANOLE INOIANS AND THE, BRITISH aun TOGETHER! WHAT AN 4} ARMY!CLASSICS Dllustrated. Jo ONE KNOWS HOW FAR DANIEL BOONE WANOERED BOTH BEFORE ANDAFTER Tue WAR OF (BIZ. BUT AT EIGHTY-TWO YEARS OF Asi FORT OSASE, NEAR WHAT'S NOW KANSAS CITY. Pfici2k bins 70 ONE REPORT HE WENT HINTING WITH Hi GRANDGON, AMES BOONE, AT THe AGE OF EIGHTY. THREE. DON'T GE SO CONCERNED ABOUT ME, SON. ‘ CARE OF MYSELF. ANO T'LLBRING BACK MORE GAME THAN YOU. YES, ONE OF THESE DAYS L THINK TLL TRAVEL OUT TOWARD THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS| Hl TO SEE THE NATURAL CURIOSITIES OF TH 15 LAST DAYS WERE SPENT COMFORTABLY AND HAPPILY AMONG HS CHILOREN AND GRANOCHLOREN. I HIS- EYES WERE ALITTLE DIM NOW, HIG MEMORIES WERE CRYSTAL- WWENTY- FIVE YEARS LATER, KENTUCKY CLAIMED HIS BODY AND THAT OF REBECCA. THERE WAS SPLENDOR IN, THE FULL MILITARY HONORS GIVEN TO LIEUTENANT- COLONEL, BOONE, BUT IT'S TO BE FEARED THAT THE GHOST OF DAN'L. WINKED AT THE GHOST OF REBECCA, "BACK TO KAINTUCK "AT LAST, EH? WELL, THERE WAS PLENTY OF ELBOW- ROOM UP HERE.” NOW THAT YOU HAVE READ THE CLASSICS Illustrated EDITION, DON'T MISS THE ADDED ENJOYMENT OF READING THE ORIGINAL, OBTAINABLE AT_YOUR SCHOOL OR PUBLIC LIBRAJOHN BAKELESS JHILE JOHN BAKELESS, in his MV publisned works, has covered many | fi fields of knowledge, his histories of the ¢x- ploration and development of the American - } wilderness, by: means of his biographies of ] great American pioneers, have given him his a eae reading public. “There is high adventure ,in_ Bakeless's 2 uniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness,” | “Lewis and Clark: Partners in Dis ee ” There is also a great deal more i than just adventure, There is truth, garnered } hay painstaking research: there is first-hand - knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and - of those first Americans who inhabited that “wilderness, the American Indians, In addi- “tion to these attributes, there is John Bake- "less's fine, sensitive style of writing. enhanced by his ~ John | ‘Bakeless was born } on December 30, 1894, at | Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, ‘Pennsylvan one of the oldest military "posts im the United States. In 1894, Carlisle Batracks was occupied by the famous, lise Indian Industrial | School where “John «| “Bake- | Jess's father, 0. H, Bakeless, was head of the academic | department. | John. Bakeless’ 's. play: Pee s were mostly the | young Indian hoys attend- | ing the school, From them, he learned Indian “games, “learned age-old” Indian customs, heafd Indian legends and, above all, uncon. | sciously absorbed Indian’ ways.of thinking ba and reason Blanketed, feathered chiefs | sometimes were brought in from the West to | be shown. the progress of Indian children at , the. sthool. The Bakeless faniily physician mb full-blooded Apache, ‘the proud pos. fa medical degree. The school had ‘pn its staff a full-blooded Sious, also. with “a medical degree. Is it any. wonder, ther¢- that John Bakeless, in Tater life, was “write so. well about the ways of the in the early days of our country less, himself, has credited to those carly s among the Indians his keen interest in story and the history of the Ameri In 1902, the Bakeless family moved to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Shortly there- after, John was enrolled in the Model School of the Bloomsburg State Normal School. He continued there through the lower grades and then took a college preparatory course, in addition to & four-year course in teaching. During ‘his last years at the State Normal. ie also worked for the Bloomsburg Morning Press, a newspaper. Tn 1918, Bakeless was graduated from Williams College, where he had been elected to both the Phi Beta Kappa and Gargoyle honot societies. He then enlisted in. the United States Army as a private. In August “of that same year, he was commissioned a Sécond Lieutenant, Infantry, at the Central Officers Training School at Camp Lee, Virginia. Since then, John Bakeless has been in the United States Army continuously, on both® active and reserve duty, except for a two- month period-in 1919. He has been promoted through the grades.and in 1945, re- ceived the rank of colonel. ‘During World War IT, Bakeléss_ served on’ active duty in the Military Intel- Tigence Divisi Department, where for sev- eral years he was that department's principal Bal- jess has been a reporter, interviewer, deske man, feature writer and editor on the staffs ‘of several newspapers. In addition, he was, at one tin iving Age.” an Atlantic Monthly publicatio: At present, Dr: Bakeless (he is the proud possessor of a Doctor of Philosophy degree) ‘spends a good part of his time teaching at both New York University and Finch Col- lege, in New York, City, The rest of his time ‘is devoted to his literary tasks—and relaxa- tion—at his Seymour, Connecticut, farm which he has named “Elbowroom," in honor of Daniel Boone, who always wanted more “elbow room.’S THE 1926 baseball season got under way, Grover Cleveland “Old Pete” Alex- ander was starting his six- teenth season as a big leagie pitcher. During the previous fifteen years, he had covered. himself with much glory. In 1911, as a rookie pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies, he Jed the National League in games won. In 1915, 1916 and 1917, he won 31, 33 and 30 games respectively. Quite a record in view of the fact that, today, a 20-game winner is considered an ace, In 1917, Alexander was sold to the Chicago Cubs for the then enormous sum of $60,000 plus several ‘players. During the next eight years, he continued on his winning way, always winning more games than he lost. However, as the 1926 season opened, it appeared that “Old Pete” was through. He had always been a -hard-living man and seemed to have burned himself out, The ‘Cubs tried to sell him but found no buyers. ‘They then put him up on waivers." ‘The St. Louis Cardinals were in the thick of a desperate pennant battle and needed an experienced pitcher. They decided to gamble on “Old Pete.” ‘The pitcher nobody else wanted went on to finish the season with a record of 12 won—10 lost, helping the Cards win their first National League champion- ship. Their opponents in the World Series were the powerful New York Yankees, boast- ing of such great hitters as “Babe” Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri and Bill Dickey. Tt was a bitterly-fought Series. At the end of six games, the teams were tied at three victories each. Alexander had won the first and sixth games, more than justifying the Cards’ early season gamble. ‘Then came “Old Pete's” greatest moment, The date—October 10, 1926; the place — Yankee Stadium in New York; the time— the seventh inning of the seventh.and decid- ing game of the 1926 World Series. But let us go back a bit to see how the stage was STORIES FROM THE WORLD OF SPORTS ""'Old Pete's' Greatest Moment" set for Alexander’s entrance info the realm of the immortal. Haines of the Cards and Hoyt of the Yanks were the opposing pitchers in that all-important game, The Yanks scored a run in the third inning when Ruth hit a home run. This slim Yan- kee lead was wiped out when the Cards came back with three runs in their half of the fourth inning. Here’s how those runs were scored: After Bottomly singled, Mark Koenig, great Yankee shortstop, messed up a double play ball hit by Bell. Hafey’s fiy ball fell between Koenig and rightfielder Bob Meusel. An- other error on Card catcher O'Farrell’s lazy fly and one run was in, Thevenow then singled, scoring Bell and Hafey. That ended the Cardinal scoring in that inning. Net result: three runs on three puny singles and two Yankee errors of tommission and one misplayed fly ball. ‘The Yankees fought back desperately. ‘They all knew that this was it—the last game of the Series and to the winner of this game would go the glory and spoils of being baseball's world champions. They scored one run in the sixth inning and in the seventh, were threatening to score many more. Haines, pitching with a blistered finger, walked the immortal Earl Combs, Yankee centerfielder. A sacrifice by Koenig moved Combs to second. The mighty “Babe” Ruth was purposely given a base on balls. Meusel forced Ruth at second, Combs moving down to third base on the play. Rogers Hornsby, the Cardinal manager, then ordered the “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, walked, filling the bases. Hornsby walked out to the pitcher's mound and, after examining Haines’ blistered finger, waved Alexander in from the bull pen (the place where pitchers warm up during agame). At the plate, with a menacing mace in his hands, stood Tony Lazzeri, one of the great- est second basemen in baseball history. Whata spot for the supposedly washed-up old pitcher! The bases loaded, two men out, the score a tight 3-2 in his team’s favor, and éne of the game’s most dangerous hitters at the plate waiting to send his teammates scamp- ering across home plate. The air was super- charged with tension and excitement as the 38,093 spectators in the vast stadium held their breath, Grim silence reigned as “Old Pete" Alexander looked down to get the sig- nal from his catcher. The old campaigner got his signal, straightened up, stretched, and let go with a blazing first pitch. Lazzeri made a mighty sweep of his bat and hit... air. Strike one! Another fast ball and this time, bat met ball solidly as Lazzeri hit a vicious line drive . . . foul by a mere few feet. The excitement of the moment was almost unbear- able. Could this pitcher who had been judged useless by all the other teams in the National League, get by the great Tony? There were now two strikes on the batter. The next pitch could very well tell the story. “Old Pete” reared back and let go another fireball, Laz- zeri took a vicious swing... at nothing. Strike three! ‘The inning was over. The air was sud- derily shattered by the tremendous ovation that the crowd tendered the Cardinal pitch- ing hero. The rest of the game was strictly anti- climactic. Alexander took complete’ charge over the Yankees in the eighth and ninth jonings and the St. Louis Cardinals walked off the field that day as World Champions of Baseball. Alexander continued to pitch until 1930, ending his career with an overall record of 373 games won, 208 games lost. Shortly thereafter, he was elected to a well-deserved niche in baseball’s Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers of America. But Alexander lived a fast, hard life. Years later, he was found, ‘almost penniless, working in a New York Flea Circus, lecturing on the evils of drink, Shortly before he died, he was @ guest of the Phillies at the 1950 World Series, when that team played the Yankees. Though he died financially poor, he was rich, for to the very end he possessed the cherished memory of many thousands cheering him at his “great moment.” hall law stipalater that no player tu the Nation jue may be told to a team Gn the American Loui ia all National Leeggue tame conseit. Thin ia Ki ing.” However, should one af the Natianal 1 lea the ple ‘team holding tract way either withdrase his name from the seaiver list» (his can daly be done twice in an one wear: the playre ust be aold'the third time a team elaine hin) or eive set Kim: to the clataing team for the walver peice which & Get prevent, $10,000, The order in which the teams extcr their elaine Gn the order in which the tears stond tw the league, tt the last team gets fret chawee, mest €0 lect tain secand chance, and. 20 on up the line. Should theAMERICAN PRESIDENTS How Abraham Lincoln Gained National Prominence NE day’in early Febru- ary, 1859, Abraham Lincoln received a letter that was to change the course of history, In the plainly furnished reception room of the law firm of ‘Lincoln and Stuart, he read the letter. ‘Tt was ih invitation to be the guest speaker at lymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. fe wes offered ‘$200 and'expenses to make ‘the trip from his home in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln: placed the letter on a table and | wearily sat down on a well- |-worn chair, Two hundred dollars meant « great deal to him | for, @lthough he had been in politics for "twenty-five years, he. was still a poor man. As he sat in his'chair wondering whether or “not he should. accept the invitation, he re- "viewed those past twenty-five years. Once, before entering. politics, he had ‘driven @ load of produce on a flat boat down’ the Mississippi River to’ New Orleans. It was this trip ‘that ie. had er so’ deeply — of ardent followers along ‘the way. | grocery business, Lincoln began to study law. To support himself, he worked as deputy “surveyor and postmaster of New Salem, } Hlinots. | In 1834, Lincoln was elected to the Minos } State Legislature where he served for eight | ‘years, arguing against slavery but champion- | ing states’ rights and Constitutional law. | Seven years later, he moved to Springfield. “the new capital of Hlinois, where he married and opened a law office. In 1846, he was. } elected to the United States Congress as a | representative but retired after serving only | one term of office. planning to devote his life “| | to the private practice of law. and Lincoln could not ignore them. He de- bated against Senator Stephen A. Douglas * bills favoring slavery. Li cola then became a candidate for the United States Senate but lost the election to Doug- las. His debates and campaign, however, had. resulted in his name becoming known to many in the Midwest and East and brought the invitation to. speak ia Brooklyn, New York. % ¥ Lincoln's son, Robert, was attending a school in New Hampshire. The trip to New York would not only be financially profitable but would also enable him to visit his son. So he accepted. ‘The meeting place was changed from ~ Plymouth Church to Cooper Union in New | York in order to accommodate a larger audi- | ence: It was a stormy night, thet Febraary | 27, 1859; but those who had braved the ele- ments to see and hear this western giant went home thrilled by his simple eloquence, - his humble manner, and by the logi which he stated his stand on slavery. Reporters ‘Feoa the New, a throughout the country. Lincoln was invited to: ois every portant town on the route to his son’sschool. He delivered, in. all, eleven speeches on his way to New Hampshire, gathering thousands The result of Lincoln's acceptance to | speak in New York was to gain him national recognition and, ultimately, the presidency, — There’is no doubt that ‘had he ised’ thi offer, he would have Tived and di prac - tically unknown. Pa ‘Thus. by accepting a cheeice to carn, ‘s200 | and visit his son, Abraham: ‘Lincoln earned oy the immortality he so richly deserved,FREE FREE FREE " FREE FREE = THIS BEAUTIFUL 3-PIECE PEN AND PENCIL SET errs oan via FILL OUT COUPON OR A Exes endear A BALL-POINT PEN A LEVER FOUNTAIN PEN AND A MECHANICAL PENCIL fours absolutely FREE OF CHARGE with o 1-year sub. scription to CYASSIOS or on 1,80 his set is our gift to you and will be mailed promptly. Your subscription will begin with next month's issue and will bring you @ new reading thrill each month for a full year. The supply of these betutiful sets is limited. So fil out the coupon below and MAll IT NOW! TODAY! 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