YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCES.
At School—My First Love Scrape—I Punish my Rival, and then Run Away—My
First Trip Across the Plains—Steve Gobel and I are Friends once
more—Death of my Father—I Start for Salt Lake—Our Wagon Train
Surprised by Indians, who Drive us off, and Capture our Outfit—I Kill my
First Indian—Our Return to Leavenworth—I am Interviewed by a Newspaper
Reporter, who gives me a Good "Send-Off."
CHAPTER V.
IN BUSINESS.
My Second Trip Across the Plains—The Salt Lake Trail—Wild Bill—He
Protects me from the Assault of a Bully—A Buffalo Hunt—Our Wagon Train
Stampeded by Buffaloes—We are Taken Prisoners by the Mormons—We Proceed
to Fort Bridger.
CHAPTER VI.
HARD TIMES.
A Dreary Winter At Fort Bridger—Short Rations—Mule Steaks—Homeward
Bound in the Spring—A Square Meal—Corraled by Indians—A Mule
Barricade—We Hold the Fort—Home Again—Off for the West—Trapping on
the Chugwater And Laramie Rivers—We go to Sleep In a Human Grave—A
Horrifying Discovery—A Jollification at Oak Grove Ranch—Home Once
More—I go to School—The Pike's Peak Gold Excitement—Down the Platte
River on a Raft—I Become a Pony Express Rider.