CONTENTS PAGE List of Illustrations VI Foreword VII Chapter I.

ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "They started flight" Frontispiece "Fording

FOREWORD

CROSSING THE PLAINS DAYS OF '57

CHAPTER I. FORSAKING THE OLD IN QUEST OF THE NEW. FIRST CAMP. FORDING THE PLATTE.

CHAPTER II. LARAMIE FASHIONS AND SIOUX ETIQUETTE. A TROPHY.

CHAPTER III. LOST IN THE BLACK HILLS. DEVIL'S GATE. WHY A MOUNTAIN SHEEP DID NOT WINK. GREEN RIVER FERRY.

CHAPTER IV. DISQUIETING RUMORS OF REDMEN. CONSOLIDATION FOR SAFETY. THE POISONOUS HUMBOLDT.

CHAPTER V. THE HOLLOWAY MASSACRE.

CHAPTER VI. ORIGIN OF "PIKER." BEFORE THE ERA OF CANNED GOODS

CHAPTER VII. TANGLED BY A TORNADO. LOST THE PACE BUT KEPT THE

CHAPTER VIII. DISASTER OVERTAKES THE WOOD FAMILY.

CHAPTER IX. MYSTERIOUS VISITORS. EXTRA SENTRIES. AN ANXIOUS NIGHT.

CHAPTER X. CHALLENGE TO BATTLE.

CHAPTER XI. SAGEBRUSH JUSTICE.

CHAPTER XII. NIGHT TRAVEL, FROM ARID WASTES TO LIMPID WATERS.

CHAPTER XIII. INTO THE SETTLEMENTS. HALT.

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