INDEX.

Chapter.		Page.
I.	My Boyhood Days	[13]
II.	My Introduction to the late war	[20]
III.	My First Lesson in Cow Punching	[31]
IV.	My second experience in St. Louis	[43]
V.	A New experience	[53]
VI.	Adopted and sent to school	[61]
VII.	Back at last to the Lone Star State	[68]
VIII.	Learning to rope wild steers	[75]
IX.	Owning my first cattle	[84]
X.	A start up the Chisholm trail	[95]
XI.	Buys a boat and becomes a sailor	[103]
XII.	Back to my favorite occupation, that of a wild and woolly Cow Boy	[112]
XIII.	Mother and I meet at last	[119]
XIV.	On a tare in Wichita, Kansas	[129]
XV.	A lonely trip down the Cimeron	[141]
XVI.	My first experience roping a Buffalo	[150]
XVII.	An exciting trip after thieves	[158]
XVIII.	Seven weeks among Indians	[164]
XIX.	A lonely ride of eleven hundred miles	[176]
XX.	Another start up the Chisholm trail	[186]
XXI.	A trip which terminated in the capture of "Billy the Kid"	[196]
XXII.	Billy the Kid's capture	[215]
XXIII.	A trip to the Rio Grande on a mule	[223]
XXIV.	Waylaid by unknown parties	[231]
XXV.	Lost on the Staked Plains	[239]
XXVI.	A trip down the Reo Pecos	[255]
XXVII.	A true sketch of "Billy the Kid's" life	[269]
XXVIII.	Wrestling with a dose of Small Pox on the Llano Esticado	[285]
XXIX.	In love with a Mexican girl	[299]
XXX.	A sudden leap from Cow Boy to Merchant	[309]