BANCROFT 

 LIBRARY 



Prefatory" 



This book is descriptive, historical, instructive, truth- 

 ful. 



It is a safe book for the young people. 



It is intended to be an interesting book for the old 

 people. 



These stories are drawn from the personal experiences 

 of the author, during a trip across Nebraska, and west- 

 ward over the mountains to the Pacific coast in the year 

 1852, and from a residence in Nebraska since May 1C, 

 1867. 



It is a book of frontier stories taken from actual life. 



These stories were first printed in the county news- 

 papers, with no thought of having them published in book 

 _j form. They met with so much favor that it was determined 



O to send them forth in a bound volume. 

 O 



Here it is. 



A. J. LEACH. 



5 Oakdale, Nebraska, March 13, 1916. 

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