THE COURIER OF THE OZARKS

THE YOUNG MISSOURIANS SERIES

BY BYRON A. DUNN

AUTHOR OF "THE YOUNG KENTUCKIANS" SERIES

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
BY H. S. DeLAY

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1912

Copyright
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1912

Published September, 1912

W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO

To the Loyal Men of Missouri, who as members of the militia did so much to save the State to the Union, this book is dedicated. History gives them scant notice, and the Federal government has failed to reward them as they deserve.

"Follow the colors," he shouted.

PREFACE

During the year 1862, after the capture of Island No. 10 and New Madrid, no large armies operated in Missouri; but the State was the theater of a desperate guerrilla warfare, in which nearly or quite a hundred thousand men took part. It was a warfare the magnitude of which, at the present time, is very little known; and its cruelty and barbarity make a bloody page in the history of those times.

This book is a story of this warfare. It is a story of adventure, of hair-breadth escapes, and of daring deeds. In it the same characters figure as those in With Lyon in Missouri and The Scout of Pea Ridge. It tells how our young heroes were instrumental in thwarting the great conspiracy by which the Confederate government, by sending officers into the State, and organizing the different guerrilla bands into companies and regiments, was in hopes of wresting the State from Federal control.

As in former books, history is closely followed.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Bruno Carries a Message
CHAPTER II. An Internecine War
CHAPTER III. A Mysterious Communication
CHAPTER IV. Moore's Mill
CHAPTER V. A Fight in the Night
CHAPTER VI. Kirksville
CHAPTER VII. Poindexter Captured
CHAPTER VIII. Lone Jack
CHAPTER IX. Captured by Guerrillas
CHAPTER X. The Guerrilla's Bride
CHAPTER XI. The Story of Carl Meyer
CHAPTER XII. The News from Corinth
CHAPTER XIII. Porter Captures Palmyra
CHAPTER XIV. Ten Lives for One
CHAPTER XV. A Girl of the Ozarks
CHAPTER XVI. A Wounded Confederate
CHAPTER XVII. Trailing Red Jersey
CHAPTER XVIII. Live—I Cannot Shoot You
CHAPTER XIX. Mark Has a Rival
CHAPTER XX. Capturing a Train
CHAPTER XXI. The Old Man of the Mountains
CHAPTER XXII. Mark Confesses His Love
CHAPTER XXIII. Into the Lion's Mouth
CHAPTER XXIV. Prairie Grove
CHAPTER XXV. Called to Other Fields

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