Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies - Edwin L. Sabin

TO SCOUTS

Scouts in America have a high honor to maintain, for the American scout has always been the best in the world. He is noted as being keen, quick, cautious, and brave. He teaches himself, and he is willing to be taught by others. He is known and respected. Even in the recent war in South Africa between Great Britain and the Boers, it was Major Frederick Russell Burnham, an American, once a boy in Iowa, who was the English Chief of Scouts. Major Burnham is said to be the greatest modern scout.

The information in this book is based upon thoroughly American scoutcraft as practiced by Indians, trappers, and soldiers of the old-time West, and by mountaineers, plainsmen, and woodsmen of to-day.

As the true-hearted scout should readily acknowledge favor and help, so I will say that for the diagram of the squaw hitch and of the diamond hitch I am indebted to an article by Mr. Stewart Edward White in Outing of 1907, and one by Mr. I. J. Bush in Recreation of 1911; for the "medicine song" and several of the star legends, to that Blackfeet epic, "The Old North Trail," by Walter McClintock; for medical and surgical hints, to Dr. Charles Moody's "Backwoods Surgery and Medicine" and to the American Red Cross "First Aid" text-book; for some of the lore, to personal experiences; and for much of it, to various old army, hunting, and explorer scout-books, long out of print, written when good scouting meant not only daily food, travel, and shelter, but daily life itself.

E. L. S.

BOOK KIT

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	THE LONG TRAIL	[1]
II	THE NIGHT ATTACK	[11]
III	THE BIG TROUT	[21]
IV	THE BEAVER MAN	[31]
V	TWO RECRUITS	[39]
VI	A DISASTROUS DOZE	[54]
VII	HELD BY THE ENEMY	[69]
VIII	A NEW USE FOR A CAMERA	[85]
IX	JIM BRIDGER ON THE TRAIL	[98]
X	THE RED FOX PATROL	[111]
XI	THE MAN AT THE DUG-OUT	[121]
XII	FOILING THE FIRE	[133]
XIII	ORDERS FROM THE PRESIDENT	[146]
XIV	THE CAPTURE OF THE BEAVER MAN	[161]
XV	GENERAL ASHLEY DROPS OUT	[179]
XVI	A BURRO IN BED	[185]
XVII	VAN SANT'S LAST CARTRIDGE	[199]
XVIII	FITZ THE BAD HAND'S GOOD THROW	[216]
XIX	MAJOR HENRY SAYS "OUCH"	[230]
XX	A FORTY-MILE RIDE	[244]
XXI	THE LAST DASH	[258]