CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. AT THE COLONEL'S HEAD-QUARTERS.

CHAPTER II. OSCAR'S OUTFIT.

CHAPTER III. BIG THOMPSON.

CHAPTER IV. PICKING OUT A PONY.

CHAPTER V. LARAMIE PLAINS.

CHAPTER VI. A RIDE THROUGH THE SAGE-BRUSH.

CHAPTER VII. ANOTHER UNEXPECTED MEETING.

CHAPTER VIII. TOM PRESTON.

CHAPTER IX. TOM'S STORY.

CHAPTER X. TOM LEARNS SOMETHING.

CHAPTER XI. TOM BECOMES DESPERATE.

CHAPTER XII. OSCAR TALKS TO THE COLONEL.

CHAPTER XIII. OSCAR WRITES A NOTE.

CHAPTER XIV. LEFT IN THE SAGE-BRUSH.

CHAPTER XV. THE HUNTING PARTY.

CHAPTER XVI. A CHASE AND A CAPTIVE.

CHAPTER XVII. COURSING AND STILL-HUNTING.

CHAPTER XVIII. "CLIMB DOWN, PARD!"

CHAPTER XIX. THE STOLEN MULE.

CHAPTER XX. INSIDE THE DUG-OUT.

CHAPTER XXI. THE RANCHMAN SAYS SOMETHING.

CHAPTER XXII. THE CAMP IN THE FOOT-HILLS.

CHAPTER XXIII. HUNTING THE BIG-HORN.

CHAPTER XXIV. A FREE FIGHT.

CHAPTER XXV. OSCAR DISCOVERS SOMETHING.

CHAPTER XXVI. THE RIVAL HUNTERS.

CHAPTER XXVII. BIG THOMPSON FOLLOWS A TRAIL.

CHAPTER XXVIII. "OLD EPHRAIM."

CHAPTER XXIX. A LUCKY SHOT.

CHAPTER XXX. OSCAR HAS A VISITOR.

CHAPTER XXXI. TOM AND HIS PARTNER.

CHAPTER XXXII. THE WOLFER'S PLAN.

CHAPTER XXXIII. LISH DECIDES TO MOVE.

CHAPTER XXXIV. A CLIMAX.

CHAPTER XXXV. WHAT OSCAR'S VISITOR DID.

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE TABLES TURNED.

CHAPTER XXXVII. BIG THOMPSON'S HUNTING DOG.

CHAPTER XXXVIII. FAREWELL TO THE HILLS.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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