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قراءة كتاب The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma
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The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma
THE BOY LAND BOOMER
OR
DICK ARBUCKLE'S
ADVENTURES IN OKLAHOMA
BY
CAPTAIN RALPH BONEHILL
AUTHOR OF
"THREE YOUNG RANCHMEN,"
"A SAILOR BOY WITH DEWEY," ETC.
H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY
NEW YORK Publishers BOSTON
COPYRIGHT, 1902,
BY
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Made by
Robert Smith Printing Co.,
Lansing, Mich.
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himself a lot of broken bones"
"The next instant the boy was hurled headlong into
the boiling and foaming current"
"Dick had let fly the jagged stone, taking him directly
in the forehead and keeling him over like a tenpin"
"In a second more the two men were in a hand-to-handencounter"
PREFACE.
"The Boy Land Boomer" relates the adventures of a lad who, with his father, joins a number of daring men in an attempt to occupy the rich farming lands of Oklahoma before the time when that section of our country was thrown open to settlement under the homestead act.
Oklahoma consists of a tract of land which formerly formed a portion of the Indian Territory. This region was much in dispute as early as 1884 and 1885, when Captain "Oklahoma" Payne and Captain Couch did their best to force an entrance for the boomers under them. Boomers remained in the neighborhood for years, and another attempt was made to settle Oklahoma in 1886, and up to 1889, when, on April 22, the land was thrown open to settlement