JULIUS C. BIRGE

With Illustrations

RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
BOSTON

The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

[CONTENTS]

Chapter		Page
I	A Call to the Wilderness	[11]
II	"Roll Out"	[18]
III	The Advancing Wave of Civilization	[24]
IV	A River Town of the Day	[38]
V	Our Introduction to the Great Plains	[52]
VI	The Oregon Trail	[64]
VII	Society in the Wilderness	[76]
VIII	Jack Morrow's Ranch	[88]
IX	Men of the Western Twilight	[102]
X	Dan, the Doctor	[118]
XI	Fording the Platte in High Water	[133]
XII	The Phantom Liar of Greasewood Desert	[142]
XIII	The Mystery of Scott's Bluffs	[156]
XIV	The Peace Pipe at Laramie	[167]
XV	Red Cloud on the War Path	[186]
XVI	The Mormon Trail	[196]
XVII	Wild Midnight Revelry in the Caspar Hills	[211]
XVIII	A Night at Red Buttes	[223]
XIX	Camp Fire Yarns at Three Crossings	[237]
XX	A Spectacular Buffalo Chase	[252]
XXI	The Parting of the Ways	[267]
XXII	The Banditti of Ham's Fork	[281]
XXIII	Through the Wasatch Mountains	[290]
XXIV	Why a Fair City Arose in a Desert	[303]
XXV	Some Inside Glimpses of Mormon Affairs	[324]
XXVI	Mormon Homes and Social Life	[342]
XXVII	The Boarding House Train	[359]
XXVIII	Some Episodes in Stock Hunting	[380]
XXIX	Adventures of an Amateur Detective	[393]
XXX	The Overland Stage Line	[409]

Trail Through Salt Lake Desert	[Frontispiece]
	Facing page
Elk	[16]
Wild Cat	[48]
The Oregon Trail, Through Mitchell Pass	[64]
Chimney Rock, One of the Old Landmarks of the '49 Trail	[74]
Grizzly Bear	[96]
Cougar	[112]
Buffalos	[130]
Jail Rock and Court House Rock	[148]
Scott's Bluff, Showing Dome Rock in the Distance	[155]
The Old Company Quarters at Fort Laramie	[184]
Sage Brush Growth	[202]
The Rockies	[252]
Fremont Peak and Island Lake on the West Slope of the Wind River Range	[268]
Red Sandstone Cliffs, on Wind River	[280]
Weber River, Mouth of Echo Canyon	[294]
Joseph Smith	[304]
The King of Beaver Island	[308]
Brigham Young	[316]
First House Built in Salt Lake City	[330]
Great Salt Lake	[346]
Through the Wasatch	[360]
Dead Man's Falls, Little Cottonwood, Utah	[386]
Sutter's Fort Before Restoration, Sacramento, Calif	[406]
First House in Denver	[420]