CONTENTS

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The Fur Traders[9]
Why I am not a Fur Trader[11]
Striving to Plan for the Future[13]
An Inquisitive Stranger[15]
An Unexpected Proposition[16]
I set Out as a Guide[18]
John Mitchell's Outfit[20]
Making the Bargain[23]
We Leave St. Louis[25]
The Hardships to be Encountered[26]
The Camp at Independence[28]
A Frontier Town[30]
The Start from Independence[33]
Careless Travelers[35]
Overrun by Wild Horses[38]
Searching for the Live Stock[40]
Abandoning the Missing Animals[42]
Meeting with Other Emigrants[43]
A Tempest[46]
Facing the Indians[49]
Teaching the Pawnees a Lesson[51]
The Pawnee Village[53]
A Bold Demand[54]
I Gain Credit as a Guide[56]
A Difficult Crossing[58]
Wash Day[60]
Indian Pictures[62]
A Plague of Wood Ticks[64]
Another Tempest[66]
The Cattle Stampeded Again[68]
Difficult Traveling[69]
Colonel Kearny's Dragoons[71]
Disagreeable Visitors[73]
Driving away the Indians[75]
Turkey Hunting[76]
Eager Hunters[77]
Antelope Country[79]
Shooting Antelopes[81]
A Pawnee Visitor[83]
The Pawnees try to Frighten Us[85]
Defending Ourselves[87]
Scarcity of Fuel, and Discomfort[89]
Lame Oxen[91]
An Army of Emigrants[92]
The Buffalo Country[95]
Hunting Buffaloes[97]
My Mother's Advice[99]
Ash Hollow Post Office[100]
New Comrades[102]
Fort Laramie[103]
A Sioux Encampment[106]
Indians on the March[107]
The Fourth of July[109]
Multitudes of Buffaloes[111]
We Meet Colonel Kearny Again[113]
Across the Divide[115]
Fort Bridger[117]
Trading at Fort Hall[122]
Thievish Snakes[123]
The Hot Springs[124]
The Falls of the Snake River[126]
Signs of the Indians[128]
Beset with Danger[129]
Hunger and Thirst[131]
Nearly Exhausted[133]
Arrival at Fort Boise[135]
On the Trail Once More[137]
Cayuse Indians[139]
The Columbia River[140]
An Indian Ferry[141]
The Dalles of the Columbia[143]
Our Live Stock[144]
My Work as Guide Ended[145]
I Become a Farmer[146]

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