The Freerangers- A Story of Early Days Along the Mississippi

The Free Rangers continues the story of two boys and their comrades who were the central characters in "The Young Trailers", "The Forest Runners", and "The Keepers of the Trail". and "The Eyes of the Woods".  In this volume, the trailers (to use the series name) come into conflict with a Spanish expedition in the Ohio valley and learn of the intention of its leader to make an alliance with the Indians. The five then make their way down the Mississippi to warn the governor in New Orleans of the treachery, for Spain is not an enemy of the Americans. Their travels include more conflicts with the Spanish intruder who is also hastening to New Orleans, and encounter with a Spanish priest who aids them when some of the group are captured, dealing with political intrigue in New Orleans, and the start of a trip back up the Mississippi with an American force taking supplies to the American settlers in Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania. This book may be more interesting to contemporary readers, for it has more continual action and fewer conversations among its actors. Great adventure stories based on truth.