JULIUS C. BIRGE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT
THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT (2)
CHAPTER I A Call to the Wilderness
CHAPTER II " Roll Out "
CHAPTER III The Advancing Wave of Civilization
CHAPTER IV A River Town of the Day
CHAPTER V Our Introduction to the Great Plains
CHAPTER VI The Oregon Trail
CHAPTER VII Society in the Wilderness
CHAPTER VIII Jack Morrow's Ranch
CHAPTER IX Men of the Western Twilight
CHAPTER X Dan, The Doctor
CHAPTER XI Fording the Platte in High Water
CHAPTER XII The Phantom Liar of Grease Wood Desert
CHAPTER XIII The Mystery of Scott's Bluffs
CHAPTER XIV The Peace Pipe at Laramie
CHAPTER XV Red Cloud on the War Path
CHAPTER XVI The Mormon Trail
CHAPTER XVII Wild Midnight Revelry in the Caspar Hills
CHAPTER XVIII A Night at Red Buttes
CHAPTER XIX Camp Fire Yarns at Three Crossings
CHAPTER XX A Spectacular Buffalo Chase
CHAPTER XXI The Parting of the Ways
CHAPTER XXII The Banditti of Ham's Fork
CHAPTER XXIII Through the Wasatch Mountains
CHAPTER XXIV Why a Fair City Arose in a Desert
CHAPTER XXV Some Inside Glimpses of Mormon Affairs
CHAPTER XXVI Mormon Homes and Social Life
CHAPTER XXVII The Boarding House Train
CHAPTER XXVIII Some Episodes In Stock Hunting
CHAPTER XXIX Adventures Of An Amateur Detective
CHAPTER XXX The Overland Stage Line
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