One morning in early spring, at the beginning of the last century, a party of four persons left the frontier town of Woodvale, in southern Ohio, and started on their long journey across the continent.<br><br>Do you need an introduction to the little company? Hardly, and yet it is well to recall them to mind.<br><br>First of all was our old friend Deerfoot, the Shawanoe, to whom we bade good-bye at the close of the story "Deerfoot in the Forest," with a hint of the important expedition upon which he had decided to enter with his companions.