THE LURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI

BY

D. LANGE

AUTHOR OF “ON THE TRAIL OF THE SIOUX,” “THE SILVER ISLAND
OF THE CHIPPEWA,” “LOST IN THE FUR COUNTRY,”
“IN THE GREAT WILD NORTH,” AND “THE
LURE OF THE BLACK HILLS”

ILLUSTRATED BY W. L. HOWES

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, October, 1917

COPYRIGHT 1917, BY D. Lange
THE LURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U. S. A.
“Come out, you white men, and fight!”
“Come out, you white men, and fight!”

FOREWORD

The story told here has for its scenic background the MississippiRiver and its fine northern tributary, the Minnesota, the “Sky-tintedWater” of the Sioux Indians.

The story opens in the spring of 1861. The Civil War has begun.Lincoln has called for 75,000 volunteers, while to regiments andbatteries of the small regular army orders have been issued to hurryto Washington as fast as possible.

Colonel John C. Pemberton embarks his battery on the Fanny Harris,at Fort Ridgely on the Minnesota River. Hundreds of sullenIndians watch the troops leave, and visions of regaining their richhunting grounds in the Minnesota valley arise in the minds of thestarving savages, who have been brooding for several years over realand fancied wrongs.

Within a year of the departure of the soldiers, a furious Indian warsweeps over the young State of Minnesota, while on the Mississippifrom Cairo to New Orleans Federal and Confederate fleets and armiesbattle for the control of the Great River. On this historicalbackground move the characters of the story: Barker, the old trapper;Tatanka, the Sioux scout; Tim and Bill Ferguson, two Southern boys;and their doubtful friend, Cousin Hicks.

At Vicksburg, in the summer of 1863, we meet again the former ColonelJohn

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