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Title: Down The River
Buck Bradford and His Tyrants

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: January 14, 2008 [EBook #24283]

Language: English

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STARRY FLAG SERIES

OLIVER OPTIC

[Illustration: THE SETTLEMENT.--Page 52.]

DOWN THE RIVER;

OR,

BUCK BRADFORD AND HIS TYRANTS.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," "THE ARMY AND NAVY STORIES,"
"THE WOODVILLE STORIES," "THE BOAT-CLUB STORIES,"
"THE RIVERDALE STORIES," ETC.

BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS.
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS.
All rights reserved.

DOWN THE RIVER.

TO

MY YOUNG FRIEND

_WILLIAM H. LOW_

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

"DOWN THE RIVER" is the sixth of the continued stories published in "OUR
BOYS AND GIRLS," and the last of "THE STARRY FLAG SERIES." It is the
personal narrative of Buck Bradford, who, with his deformed sister, made
an eventful voyage down the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, to New
Orleans. The writer's first book--not a juvenile, and long since out of