Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ranche on the Oxhide: A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier
Late in the fall of 1866, Robert Thompson, a veteran of one of the Vermont regiments, hav ing read in his Village newspaper such glowing accounts Of the advantages Offered by Kansas to the immigrant, decided to leave his ancestral homestead among the barren hills of the Green Mountain State, and take up a Claim in the far West. The family, consisting of father, mother, Joseph, Robert, Gertrude, and Kate, after a jour ney by railroad and steamboat without incident worth recording, arrived at Leavenworth on the Missouri River, the general rendezvous in those early days for all who intended to cross the great plains, through which a railroad was then an idle dream. In that rough, but busy town, Mr. Thompson purchased two six-mule teams, two White-covered wagons called prairie schoon ers, together with sufficient provisions to last a month, by which time he thought he Should find a suitable location on the Vast plains whither he was going.
A few cooking-utensils of the simplest Char acter, together with a double-barrelled shot-gun and a Spencer ri?e, constituted the entire outfit necessary for their lonely trip of perhaps three hundred miles, before they could hope to find unoccupied land on which to settle.
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