The Ranger; Or, The Fugitives of the Border

This book is a fictional Western adventure novel set in the southern part of the state of Ohio, in the United States. Twenty year old George Leland and his sister Rosalind, three years his junior, inherited their parent's mansion after they died. Yet they had, with the assistance of a faithful servant, managed to live quite comfortably. The soil was exceedingly rich, and, with little pains, yielded abundantly everything that could be wished, while the river and woods were unfailing resources. Three years had elapsed since their father's death, and during that time, although living in a country swarming with Indians, nothing had occurred to alarm the fears of our friends, or even to give them the slightest suspicion that danger threatened them…