CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Dedication | [7] |
| Preface | [8] |
| Contents | [12] |
| Illustrations | [13] |
| THE EARLY CAVE-MEN THE AGE OF COMBAT | |
| PAGE | |
| Why People Wanted to Live in Caves | [15] |
| How the Fire Clan Got a Cave | [18] |
| The First Night in the Cave | [24] |
| How the Fire Clan Got Rid of Sabre-tooth | [27] |
| Preparations for the Feast | [32] |
| The Feast | [35] |
| How the Cave was Made Ready for a Winter Home | [40] |
| How the Cave-men Bored Holes Through Their Trophies | [43] |
| Making New Weapons | [50] |
| How the Women Dressed Sabre-tooth’s Skin | [55] |
| How the Cave-men Made Clothing | [58] |
| The Fire Clan | [60] |
| How the Cave-men Spent the Winter | [64] |
| What the Cave-men Got from the Birch Trees | [66] |
| The Flood | [71] |
| What the Cave-men Lost in the Flood | [79] |
| The Council | [82] |
| The Way to the Fire Country | [88] |
| How Firekeeper Made the Skin Water Bag | [92] |
| Why Firekeeper Made a Door | [96] |
| The Stranger that Came Toward the Cave | [100] |
| The Journey to the Fire Country | [103] |
| The Return from the Fire Country | [107] |
| Strongarm Makes a Great Discovery | [112] |
| How the Cave-men Received Strongarm | [115] |
| The Thanksgiving Feast | [118] |
| What the Women Got from Spruce Trees | [121] |
| How the Women Made Splints for Baskets | [126] |
| How the Women Wove Splints | [130] |
| How the Women Colored their Baskets | [134] |
| How the Cave-men Carried their Burdens | [139] |
| A Mammoth Hunt | [143] |
| How the Cave-men Divided the Mammoth | [147] |
| Strongarm Tells Firekeeper His Secret | [150] |
| How People Know What the Cave-men Did | [155] |
| Suggestions to Teachers | [159] |