Early Western Travels
1748-1846
Volume XX

Indian alarm on the Cimarron River

[Illustrations List]

Early Western Travels
1748-1846

A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and
rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive
of the Aborigines and Social and Economic
Conditions in the Middle and Far West,
during the Period of Early
American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D.

Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents",
"Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition",
"Hennepin's New Discovery," etc.

Volume XX

Part II of Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839

Cleveland, Ohio

The Arthur H. Clark Company

1905

Copyright 1905, by

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XX

Commerce of the Prairies; or, The Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico. (Part II: Chapters xii-xvi of Volume I, and all of Volume II of original.) Josiah Gregg.
[Author's Table of Contents]13
[Text of Part II]:21

ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XX

"[Indian Alarm on the Cimarron River]"Frontispiece
"[Map of the Interior of Northern Mexico]"Facing21
[Medal of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Mexico] (text cut)40
"[Camp Comanche]"123
[Mule emerging from a mine;][Still Hunting] (text cuts in original)181
"'[Dog Town],' or Settlement of Prairie Dogs"279