CONTENTS

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I.Something about my Home and Track’s End: with how I leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the other. [1]
II.The rest of my second Night at Track’s End, and part of another: with some Things which happen between. [12]
III.A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go away from Track’s End and how some others come. [22]
IV.We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little Trip out to Bill Mountain’s House: after I come back I show what a great Fool I can be. [32]
V.Alone in Track’s End I repent of my hasty Action: with what I do at the Headquarters House, and the whole Situation in a Nutshell. [43]
VI.Some Account of what I do and think the first Day alone: with a Discovery by Kaiser at the End. [52]
VII.I have a Fight and a Fright: after which I make some Plans for the Future and take up my Bed and move. [61]
VIII.I begin my Letters to my Mother and start my Fortifications: then I very foolishly go away, meet with an Accident, and see Something which throws me into the utmost Terror. [69]
IX.More of a strange Christmas: I make Kaiser useful in an odd Way, together with what I see from under the Depot Platform. [79]
X.A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and think of Something which I don’t believe the Indians will like. [88]
XI.I give the savage Indians a great Scare, and then gather up my scattered Family at the end of a queer Christmas Day. [97]
XII.One of my Letters to my Mother, in which I tell of many Things and especially of a Mystery which greatly puzzles and alarms me. [105]
XIII.Some Talk at Breakfast, and various other Family Affairs: with Notes on the Weather, and a sight of Something to the Northwest. [115]
XIV.I have an exciting Hunt and get some Game, which I bring Home with a vast deal of Labor, only to lose Part of it in a startling Manner: together with a Dream and an Awakening. [128]
XV.The mysterious Fire, and Something further about my wretched State of Terror: with an Account of my great System of Tunnels and famous Fire Stronghold. [141]
XVI.Telling of how Pike and his Gang come and of what Kaiser and I do to get ready for them: together with the Way we meet them. [153]
XVII.The Fight, and not much else: except a little Happening at the End which startles me greatly. [162]
XVIII.After the Fight: also a true Account of the great Blizzard: with how I go to sleep in the Stronghold and am awakened before Morning. [171]
XIX.I find out who my Visitor is: with Something about him, but with more about the Chinook which came out of the Northwest: together with what I do with the Powder, and how I again wake up suddenly. [185]
XX.What the Outlaws do on their second Visit: with the awful Hours I pass through, and how I find myself at the End. [203]
XXI.After the Explosion: some cheerful Talk with the Thieves, and a strange but welcome Message out of the Storm. [210]
XXII.The last Chapter, but a good Deal in it: a free Lodging for the Night, with a little Speech by Mr. Clerkinwell: then, how Kaiser and I take a long Journey, and how we never go that Way again. [220]