CONTENTS.


Chap.Page
I. The Gold Fever,[9]
II. A "Gilt-edged" Speculation,[23]
III. A Little Game of Poker,[33]
IV. The Mother of Gold,[41]
V. "Is the Colonel 'straight?'"[52]
VI. The Wet Camp,[64]
VII. Facing Death on the Stone-slide,[73]
VIII. Their first "Colours,"[82]
IX. Under the Balm-of-Gilead Tree,[89]
X. The Shadows begin to Fall,[97]
XI. "Jump or I'll shoot,"[107]
XII. A Sheer Swindle,[117]
XIII. The Bullet's Message,[125]
XIV. What the Wolf found,[132]
XV. In the Dance-house,[144]
XVI. The Price of Blood,[153]
XVII. Chance's Gold-fever Returns,[162]
XVIII. On the Colonel's Trail again,[170]
XIX. "Good-bye, Lilla,"[177]
XX. The Accursed River,[184]
XXI. Pete's Creek,[192]
XXII. Gold by the Gallon![203]
XXIII. The Hornet's Nest,[211]
XXIV. Drowning in the Forest,[222]
XXV. In the Camp of the Chilcotins,[234]
XXVI. Rampike's Winter Quarters,[243]
XXVII. The Search for Phon,[250]
XXVIII. The King of the Big-horns,[258]
XXIX. Phon's Return,[266]
XXX. Cruickshank at Last![276]