CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.[Out Late at Night]9
II.[A New Friend]32
III.[The Trapper’s Story]48
IV.[The Trapping Grounds]72
V.[Conversations and Plans]98
VI.[Still in the Dark—The Canoe Again]116
VII.[Alone in the Wilderness]134
VIII.[Trapping Among the Indians]153
IX.[The Buffalo Hunt and its Consequences]174
X.[An Awful Awakening]191
XI.[The Brigade and an Old Friend]210
XII.[Found at Last]237

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[The Trapper’s Home]Frontispiece
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[“What’s your handle, stranger?”]41
[“Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”]61
[“Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”]79
[“In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”]93
[“I could see his two coal-black eyes glittering plainly.”]145
[“Setting up a wild yell, the Indians scattered and plunged after them.”]177
[“Without losing a moment, we mounted and struck to the northward.”]203
[“A fight! a fight! make a ring for them.”]213
[“No less personage than Nat stepped ashore.”]239
[“Hilloa, you!”]251

BILL BIDDON, TRAPPER;
OR,
LIFE IN THE NORTHWEST.