The Scouts of the Valley

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 8 · 5,223 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Chemung River Valley (N.Y. and Pa.) — Fiction · Historical fiction · Wyoming Valley (Pa.) — Fiction

Words worth knowing: savagery · foray · smolder · rearguard · diagonal · concave · plash · woodsman

THE SCOUTS OF THE VALLEY by Joseph A. Altsheler

A light canoe of bark, containing a single human figure, moved swiftly up one of the twin streams that form the Ohio.

The water, clear and deep, coming through rocky soil, babbled gently at the edges, where it lapped the land, but in the center the full current flowed steadily and without noise.

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