CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOD. 



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woods became so strong, that, bidding adieu to 

 relations and friends, he took his wife and 

 children and turning his face westward, and 

 travelino^ across Illinois and Missouri, brousfht 

 up in Kansas City, which was then but a small 

 towm on the line between Missouri and Kan- 

 sas. 



At this point his life and adventures in the 

 West, which it is. the purpose of the following 

 pages to relate, begin, and this little introduc- 

 tion is closed, hoping that the mind of the 

 reader is prepared to follow him through his 

 narrative, with at least an ordinary degree of 

 interest. 



