Contents

I. [A Company DISSOLVES AND A New Venture Starts ]1
II. [A Hostile Tribe LEAVES Footprints ]22
III. [Far Thunder RIDS THE Plains OF A Rascal ]41
IV. [The Steamboat REFUSES TO STOP ]61
V. [Two Crows RAISE THEIR Right Hands ]79
VI. [Abbott FIRES INTO A Clump OF Sagebrush ]99
VII. [Lame Wolf PRAYS TO HIS Raven ]119
VIII. [The Mandans SING THEIR Victory Song ]139
IX. [Big Lake CALLS A Council ]158
X. [The River TAKES ITS Toll ]174