The Boy With the U.S. Census
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About This Book
Through the experiences of a bright American boy, the author shows how the necessary information is gathered. The securing of this often involves hardship and peril, requiring journeys by dog-team in the frozen North and by launch in the alligator-filled Everglades of Florida, while the enumerator whose work lies among the dangerous criminal classes of the greater cities must take his life in his own hands."Every young man should read this story from cover to cover, thereby getting a clear conception of conditions as they exist to-day, for such knowledge will have a clean, invigorating and hea...
Chapters (29)
- THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS
- November, 1911
- To My Son Roger's Friend HAMILTON DAY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE CHAPTER I—A BLOOD FEUD IN OLD KENTUCKY CHAPTER II—RESCUING A LOST RACE CHAPTER III—A MANUFACTORY OF RIFLES CHAPTER IV—THE BOY LEADER OF A CRUSADE CHAPTER V—"DON'T DEPORT MY OLD MOTHER!" CHAPTER VI—THE NEGRO CENSUS FROM THE SADDLE CHAPTER VII—HOBOES ON THE TRAMP CHAPTER VIII—THE CENSUS HEROES OF THE FROZEN NORTH CHAPTER IX—CONFRONTED WITH THE BLACK HAND CHAPTER X—RIOTS AROUND A CITY SCHOOL
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS
- CHAPTER I
- A BLOOD FEUD IN OLD KENTUCKY
- CHAPTER II
- RESCUING A LOST RACE
- CHAPTER III
- A MANUFACTORY OF RIFLES
- CHAPTER IV
- THE BOY LEADER OF A CRUSADE
- CHAPTER V
- "DON'T DEPORT MY OLD MOTHER!"
- CHAPTER VI
- THE NEGRO CENSUS FROM THE SADDLE
- CHAPTER VII
- HOBOES ON THE TRAMP
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE CENSUS HEROES OF THE FROZEN NORTH
- CHAPTER IX
- CONFRONTED WITH THE BLACK HAND
- CHAPTER X
- RIOTS AROUND A CITY SCHOOL
- THE END
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