PO-NO-KAH

AN INDIAN TALE OF LONG AGO


By Mary Mapes Dodge


1903


PO-NO-KAH.

AN INDIAN STORY OF LONG AGO.




I.

THE HEDDEN FAMILY.


We who live in comfortable country homes, secure from every invader,
find it difficult to conceive the trials that beset the hardy pioneers
who settled our Western country during the last century.

In those days, and for many a year afterward, hostile Indians swarmed in
every direction, wherever the white man had made a clearing, or started
a home for himself in the wilderness. Sometimes the pioneer would be