Transcriber’s Note

Some compound words (e.g., ‘wagon-master’) appeared both with and without a hyphen. They are given as printed. Where a word is hyphenated on a line break, the hyphen is retained if the preponderance of other appearances indicate it was intended.

Footnotes are repositioned at the end of text. They have been re-numbered consecutively, and are linked for convenience.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

The following minor issues are noted, and corrected.

The name ‘Boulineau’ was likely misprinted based on that of another member of Steven’s party, Pierre Boutineau. The instance on p. 330 refers to Paul Boulieau.

p. 2	there is scar[c]ely a State in the Union	Added ‘c’.
p. 28	and Schuyler Hamilton[.]	Added full stop
p. 97	ponto[o]n	Added.
p. 99	Do not fa[l/i]l to	Corrected.
p. 137	about twelve [P.]M.	Supplied missing ‘P’.
p. 141	but about nine o’clock[,/.]	Corrected.
p. 182	at good esc[a/o]pette range	Corrected.
p. 210	formid[id]able	Removed.
p. 216	the Cerro [C/G]ordo	Corrected.
p. 330	Bouli[n]eau	Removed spurious ‘n’.
p. 373	dress of a chief?[”/’]	Corrected.