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                           MARCHING ON NIAGARA

                 OR THE SOLDIER BOYS OF THE OLD FRONTIER

                             Colonial Series

                          BY EDWARD STRATEMEYER

Author of "American Boys' Life of William McKinley," "Lost on the
Orinoco," "On to Pekin," "Between Boer and Briton," "Old Glory Series,"
"Ship and Shore Series," "Bound to Succeed Series," etc.


    _ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. SHUTE_

    BOSTON:
    LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

    COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY LEE AND SHEPARD

    Published August, 1902

    _All rights reserved_

    Norwood Press
    J. S. CUSHING & CO.--BERWICK & SMITH
    Norwood, Mass. U. S. A.




[Illustration: After him tumbled a wild cat.]




PREFACE


"MARCHING ON NIAGARA" is a complete story in itself, but forms the
second of several volumes to be known by the general title of "Colonial
Series."

In the first volume of this series, entitled "WITH WASHINGTON IN THE
WEST," we followed the fortunes of David Morris, the son of a hardy
pioneer, who first settled at Will's Creek (now the town of Cumberland,
Virginia), and later on established a trading post on one of the
tributaries of the Ohio River. This was just previous to the breaking
out of war between France and England, and when the French and English
settlers in America, especially in those localities where trading with