| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| | Preface | [v] |
| I. | Two Boys in a Dugout Canoe | [1] |
| II. | The Hollow Tree Refuge | [15] |
| III. | A Shadow over the Homestead | [27] |
| IV. | The Cabin of Bob Armstrong | [38] |
| V. | A Grand Palaver | [48] |
| VI. | Bad News | [58] |
| VII. | Off on the Great Journey | [68] |
| VIII. | The Track of the Marked Hoof | [76] |
| IX. | Along the Bank of the Missouri | [86] |
| X. | The Twang of a Bowstring | [98] |
| XI. | “All, or None!” | [110] |
| XII. | The Hidden Camp | [122] |
| XIII. | On the Billowy Prairie | [134] |
| XIV. | The Buffalo Stampede | [148] |
| XV. | Safe in the Timber | [158] |
| XVI. | The Perils of the Wilderness | [169] |
| XVII. | A Close Call | [181] |
| XVIII. | Brought to Bay by the Wolf Pack | [195] |
| XIX. | The Lost River | [207] |
| XX. | Casting Bread upon the Waters | [217] |
| XXI. | The Picture Writing on the Bark | [227] |
| XXII. | Caught in a River Trap | [237] |
| XXIII. | The Rising Waters | [247] |
| XXIV. | A Bitter Disappointment | [257] |
| XXV. | The Village of the Mandans | [270] |
| XXVI. | Strange Sights | [286] |
| XXVII. | At the Salt-lick | [299] |
| XXVIII. | Running Elk, the Sioux Chief | [311] |
| XXIX. | A Desperate Situation | [328] |
| XXX. | The Dawn Breaks—Conclusion | [337] |
| | Notes | [351] |
