The Red Man's Revenge by Robert Michael Ballantyne
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The Red Man's Revenge, by R.M. Ballantyne
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Title: The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
Author: R.M. Ballantyne
Release Date: June 6, 2007 [EBook #21697]
Language: English
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The Red Man's Revenge
CHAPTER ONE.
A TALE OF THE RED RIVER FLOOD.
OPENS THE BALL.
If ever there was a man who possessed a gem in the form of a daughter of nineteen, that man was Samuel Ravenshaw; and if ever there was a girl who owned a bluff, jovial, fiery, hot-tempered, irascible old father, that girl was Elsie Ravenshaw.
Although a gem, Elsie was exceedingly imperfect. Had she been the reverse she would not have been worth writing about.
Old Ravenshaw, as his familiars styled him, was a settler, if we may use such a term in reference to one who was, perhaps, among the most unsettled of men. He had settled with his family on the banks of the Red River. The colony on that river is now one of the frontier towns of Canada. At the time we write of, it was a mere oasis in the desert, not even an offshoot of civilisation, for it owed its existence chiefly t