The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

a comfortable hotel in the city of St. Louis, "I'm getting restless, now that the war is over. Time to b

foot impatiently, a little fr

l, t

ut! You've been hitting the trail al

y as he glanced at his leg, which exten

enough!" said his siste

't last!" sa

n you s

s. But he wasn't through his training. And as for the other boys, Frank was solemn as an owl because the de

our b

have been in it if it had gone on. Ame

nd look

bout, or was going to talk about, was something by way of teaching these boys what a country this A

k, sighing, and to smooth it out over her knee. "We've just got settled do

hall rest. While you do, I'll take the boys on the trail, the Peace T

r can yo

y were, neither over thirty. They found America for us, or a big part of it. I

You're always talking of them to the

e West was or even where it was. I've been talking to our boys about those boys! Rather I should say, those t

odded gravel

rs, the Mississippi and the Missouri! How the country has

over that very same old trail-not so long and hard and full of danger now. Why? Le

rance, and this town was on the eastern edge of it, the gate of it-the gate to the West, it used to be, before steam

time it must

times they m

go by rail, so much faster. As for going up-ri

ven, pondering over my Catlin, lookin

heard o

the originals. I swear those curious pages make my heart jump to this very day, even after our travels on the soil of France just now-France, the country that practically gave us our country, or almost all of

eg, and Uncle Dick frowned at that. "It's

boys-what d'ye think, my dear, if they wandered with me, hobbling back from the soil of old France, over the soil of the New France that once lay up the Big Muddy

e. "Of course, I knew all along you'd go somewhere," she said. "You'd find a

ope

ake the boys

, we'll not start till after school is anyhow almost out for the spring term.

be going

ng by boat, small boat, litt

r! Two

to go up the Missouri and back, so, maybe as Rob did when

talked it all over wi

iltily. "I shouldn't

lly, they're

a real boy and a real American? Our own old,

trace that old trail myself, som

of use in it. All we need know is when the train starts, and you can look on the time card for all the rest. We don't need geograp

we're studying the map of Europe-and Asia-to-day and to-morrow

but the history of all the world! When they come back, maybe they-maybe you-will know why so many boys now are asleep in the

o funny,

ny people, too-marching all the way from England and Fran