CONTENTS

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I The Scourge of the Border[9]
II The Flight Through the Darkness[35]
III Besieged in Fort Ridgely[54]
IV Refugees[77]
V Hope Deferred[95]
VI On General Sully's Staff[119]
VII Up the Missouri[130]
VIII Prairie Marching[149]
IX The Revenge of the Coyotes[167]
X The Fort on the River[183]
XI Trailing the Hostiles[207]
XII The Battle of Tahkahokuty[224]
XIII Beset in the Bad Lands[253]
XIV Te-o-kun-ko[279]
XV In the Wake of the Grasshoppers[302]
XVI Adrift in a Barge[319]
XVII Captured by Guerillas[345]
XVIII The Defence of Glasgow[372]
XIX Reunited[394]