^J =- O 2 L' A BOY'S TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS, BY LAURA PRESTON, AUTHOR OF "YOUTH'S HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA." NEW YORK: A. ROMAN & PUBLISHERS.COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO: 417 AND 419 MONTGOMERY STEEET. 1868. *A to of in theEntered Act yearaccording Congress 1868, BY A. ROMAN & COMPANY, Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United StatesIn the For the Southern ofNew York. TO LOUIS A1STD MAEY, THE ELDEST A ANDOff BEVY OP NEPHEWS NIECES, THIS LITTLE WORK WITH THE HOPE THAT AS IT HAS ALREADY RECEIVED THEIR FAVORABLE CRITICISM, IT MAY MEET THAT OF ALL YOUTHFUL LOVEBS OF ADVENTURE. San 1868.Francisco, June, BANCROFT LIBRARY A BOY'S TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS. BY LAURA PRESTON. CHAPTER I. IN the of W in western ,village lived Mrs. and her sonMissouri, Loring a little about ten old.Guy, boy years were for Mr. Lor-They very poor, though his life time was considered ing, during and his wife and child had rich, always lived after his whichcomfortably, death, occurred when was aboutGuy eight yeaps found that there were soold, they many to whom Mr. owed money,people Loring that when the there wasdebts were paid A BOY'S TRIPQ but little left for the widow and her only child. That would not have been so bad had had friends able or tothey willing assist but Mrs. found thatthem, Loring of her friends had hermost withgone I am istowealth, which, sorry aptsay, to be the case the world over. As I have when Mrs. be- said, Loring came a widow she was both andpoor she was also delicate.
^J =- O 2L' A BOY'S TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS, BY LAURA PRESTON, AUTHOR OF "YOUTH'S HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA." NEW YORK: A. ROMAN & PUBLISHERS.COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO: 417 AND 419 MONTGOMERY STEEET. 1868.*A to of in theEntered Act yearaccording Congress 1868, BY A. ROMAN & COMPANY, Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United StatesIn the For the Southern ofNew York.