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Wyoming Series.--No. 1.

WYOMING

by

EDWARD S. ELLIS

Author of "Young Pioneer Series," "Log Cabin Series," etc., etc.







Philadelphia
Henry T. Coates & Co.

Copyright, 1888.
by
Porter & Coates.




[Illustration: "He was stopped in the most startling manner that can be
imagined."]




WYOMING.




CHAPTER I.


On the sultry third of July, 1778, Fred Godfrey, a sturdy youth of
eighteen years, was riding at a breakneck speed down the Wyoming Valley,
in the direction of the settlement, from which he saw columns of smoke
rolling upward, and whence, during the few pauses of his steed, he heard
the rattling discharge of firearms and the shouts of combatants.

"I wonder whether I am too late," he asked himself more than once, and
he urged his splendid horse to a greater pace; "the road never seemed so
long."

Ah, there was good cause for the anxiety of the lad