The Trail of the Seneca
The Trail of the Seneca by James A. (James Andrew) Braden is available here as the complete text, split into 599 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Trail of the Seneca by James A. (James Andrew) Braden. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #42032.
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The Trail of the Seneca
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- Chapter I The Beginning of It All
- Chapter II A Sentence of Death—accused of Witchcraft
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV Watched
- Chapter V In Dripping Rain and Darkness
- Chapter VI “The Witch Is Hidden Here.”
- Chapter VII The Secret Lead Mine
- Chapter VIII The Salt Springs—a Startling Discovery
- Chapter IX The Evil Power of Lone-Elk
- Chapter X “More Bullets, More Lead.”
- Chapter XI The Hidden Tomahawk
- Chapter XII Kingdom Also Makes a Discovery
- Chapter XIII The Seneca Outwitted
- Chapter XIV The Mysterious Camp in the Gully
- Chapter XV The Gift of White Wampum
- Chapter XVI A Midnight Supper
- Chapter XVII The Explosion
- Chapter XVIII Fishing Bird in Trouble
- Chapter XIX An Interview with “Mad Anthony”
- Chapter XX Delivered to the Delawares
- Chapter XXI The Burning of the Cabin
- Chapter XXII The Man in the Ravine
- Chapter XXIII One Mystery Cleared Away
- Chapter XXIV Who Killed Big Buffalo
- Chapter XXV Farewell Foreve
- Chapter XXVI Down the Sun-Kissed Slope Together
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Project Gutenberg eBook #42032, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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Vocabulary met early in The Trail of the Seneca
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- Hatchet
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- Stone
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- Cumbersome
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- Crude
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