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I. Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone Uniform
The Officers (Ranks)
Pioneer Days

II. How To Celebrate Appleseed Johnny's Day

Arbor Day Parade & Planting
Tally Gun Honors

At the present time it is most imperative that the boys and young people should take an active part in the ceremonies of Arbor Day, because there are wicked and thoughtless men at present engaged in wasting and stealing the forests, with a reckless disregard of the consequences which must follow the destruction of our timber.

III. General Simon Kenton, The Buckskin Knight

His Day and How to Celebrate it
Simon Kenton, a Boys' Game
Build a Prairie Schooner
Sam Houston Land Boat

IV. Simon Girty, The Renegade

Game of Renegade
How to build a Pushmobile

V. Audubon's Day

How to Rig a House-Wagon for Boys

VI. Summer Camping in Town or Country for the Boy Pioneers

VII. How to Form a Boy's Club

Build a Boys' Club House, or Organize and Erect a Fort for the Sons of Daniel Boone

VIII. A Mandan Council-House and a Backwoods Camp.

A Constitution to Hang on the Wall

IX. How to Make  Wire Kens with Thatched Lipkins and a Bow-Arrow Door

X. How to Have a Circus in the Woods

Use of the School-Boy Vaulting-Pole

XI. Water Fun: 

Hints on Swimming
How to Make A Swimming Hole
How to Make A Pioneer Water Swing
How to Make A Wooden Slippery
How to Make A Bison McClean Elevator

XII. How to Talk the Real American Indian Sign Language as it was used in Boone's Time.

XIII. Novelties for Crockett's Day

How to Run a Costume Race.
A Leap-Frog Race.
A Wheel Barrow Race.
A Push-Wagon Race.
Woodsmen Tests

XIV. How to Throw a Tomahawk and

Make Targets for Field Tournaments, and
How To Initiate New Members in Your Club or Fort

XV. How to Handle a Gun

A Lot of Gun Don'ts
Gumption for Chumps and Tenderfeet

XVI. Fixing up the Boy's Den, Club-Room, or Fort

How to Decorate & Paper the Inside of a Shed, Attic, or Stable-Room, & How to  Make Furniture for it

XVII. Shack Racks, Bobber Shelves, & other Wrinkles.

XVIII. Totem-Poles, Totem-Boards, & Totem-Animals for S. D. B. Forts, Camps, or Country Houses.

XIX. How to Make a "Gym" in an Attic, a Boy's Den, Club-Room, or Fort

XX. Winter Sports for Sons of Daniel  Boone

Running the Indian Scouts
Catching the Raccoon
Running the Gantlet
"Gander-Pulling"
"The Goose Hangs High"

XXI. Kit Carson's Day Celebration

Siege of Boones-Borough
Sons of Daniel Boone Defend Snow Fort Against Indians
How to Build Snow Fort
The Medicine-Stick
The Game of Big Foot
Rules of Game: The Buffalo Hunt
How to Make Animal Tracks

XXII. How to Make Your Own Snow-Shoes

XXIII. How to Have a Holiday Parade 

XXIV. How to Make & Use Skating Wings 

XXV. How to Build a Pioneer Bob & a Cheap Bob-Sled

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