A Volunteer With Pike

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Author

Bennet, Robert Ames, 1870-1954

Title

A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois

Credits

Produced by Darleen Dove, Roger Frank, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

33091

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33091

Release Date

July 5, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A VOLUNTEER WITH PIKE — The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois
2. 2.BY ROBERT AMES BENNET — AUTHOR OF "FOR THE WHITE CHRIST," "INTO THE PRIMITIVE," ETC. — With four Illustrations in color by — CHARLOTTE WEBER-DITZLER — CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1909 — Copyright By A. C. McCLURG & Co. 1909 — Published October 2, 1909 — Entered at Stationers' Hall, London — All rights reserved — THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. — TO ONE WHO FOLLOWED AFTER PIKE TO THE GRAND PEAK HALF A CENTURY LATER MY FATHER — "'We go in now, señorita,' I said, offering her my arm"
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.Illustrations
5. 5.A Volunteer with Pike — The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois
6. 6.CHAPTER I — THE ROSE IN THE MIRE
7. 7.CHAPTER II — PLAIN THOMAS JEFFERSON
8. 8.CHAPTER III — AT THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — SEÑORITA ALISANDA
10. 10.CHAPTER V — GULF AND BARRIER
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — THE WEB OF THE PLOTTER
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — SHIP AND CREW
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — THE HOSPITABLE BLENNERHASSETS
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — MY INDIAN TALE — "We swung out into the current and drifted swiftly away"
15. 15.CHAPTER X — THE FATHER OF WATERS
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — GENERAL WILKINSON
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — AU REVOIR
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — AGAINST THE CURRENT
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — THE LURE
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — THE PAWNEE PERIL
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE BARRIER OF ROCK
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — THE GRAND PEAK — "'The Grand Peak!' I shouted. 'We'll name it for you'"
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — FAMINE AND FROST
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — BEYOND THE BARRIER
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — A MESSAGE TO MY LADY
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — HO FOR CHIHUAHUA!
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — GLIMPSES OF FATE
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII — THE HOUSE OF VALLOIS
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV — THE SERENADE
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV — A VICTORY
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI — A DEFEAT
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII — HEART TO HEART
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII — A SPANISH BALL
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX — THE INSULT
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX — THE DUEL — "He fell like a steer: my swordblade broke clean off, a span beyond the hilt"
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI — MY CROSS
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII — THE MESSAGE
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII — IMPRESSED
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV — SHAME
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV — UNDER THE LASH
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI — ACROSS THE GULF — THE END
42. 42.BY MR. BENNET — Into the Primitive — A daring story of shipwreck and "the survival of the fittest." — For the White Christ — A Story of the Days of Charlemagne.

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