TRACK’S
END

BEING THE NARRATIVE OF JUDSON PITCHER’S
STRANGE WINTER SPENT THERE
AS TOLD BY HIMSELF
AND EDITED

BY
HAYDEN CARRUTH

INCLUDING AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT
OF HIS NUMEROUS ADVENTURES, AND
THE FACTS CONCERNING HIS SEVERAL
SURPRISING ESCAPES FROM DEATH
NOW FIRST PRINTED IN FULL

ILLUSTRATED BY
CLIFFORD CARLETON
WITH A CORRECT MAP OF TRACK’S
END DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR

HARPER & BROTHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
M-C-M-X-I

COPYRIGHT, 1911. BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1911

TO
E. L. G. C.

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

NOTICE

Should any reader of this History of my life at Track’s End wish to write to me, to point out an error (if unhappily there shall prove to be errors), or to ask for further facts, or for any other reason, he or she may do so by addressing the letter in the care of my publishers, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, who have kindly agreed promptly to forward all such communications to me wheresoever I may chance to be at the time.

I should add that my hardships during that Winter at Track’s End did not cure me of my roving bent, though you might think the contrary should have been the case. Later, on several occasions, I adventured into wild parts, and had experiences no whit less remarkable than those at Track’s End, notably when with the late Capt. Nathan Archway, master of the Belle of Prairie du Chien packet, we descended into Frontenac Cave, and, there in the darkness (aided somewhat by Gil Dauphin), disputed possession of that subterranean region with no less a character than the notorious Isaac Liverpool, to the squeaking of a million bats. And I wish hereby to give notice that no one is to put into Print such accounts of that occurrence as I may have been heard to relate from time to time around camp-fires, on shipboard, and so forth, since I mean, with the kind help of Mr. Carruth, to publish forth the facts concerning it in another Book; and that before long.

Judson Pitcher.

Little Drum, Flamingo Key, July, 1911.

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