Diantha's Quest
A Tale of the Argonauts of '49 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Diantha's Quest: A Tale of the Argonauts of '49<br><br>One April day, in the year 1849, a little girl, dressed daintily, if cheaply, in gaily flowered calico, sat drawing with a pointed stick in the clean sand at her feet. She wore a straw sun-bonnet pulled well over her face and seemed quite oblivious to the activities of the strange camp not far away. There many men and women, already accustomed to life under canvas, were making bread, washing clothes, scouring tins, mending harness, repairing the high tops of their wagons; busy, in a hundred ways, with the homely tasks which were their daily portion. Dotted here and there over the broad plains, stretching out like a green carpet to the west, were knots of cattle, mules, oxen and horses grazing under the watchful eyes of mounted attendants. Behind the camp, separated from it by the river, was the little town of St. Joseph, the last center of civilization that these Argonauts were to see for many a weary day.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.