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- I. The Cute Coyote [1]
- An Exemplary Little Beast, My Friend the Coyote[3]
- The Prairie-dog Outwitted[5]
- The Coyote's Sense of Humour [8]
- His Distinguishing Gift [11]
- The Coyote's Song [13]
- II. The Prairie-dog and His Kin [17]
- Merry Yek-Yek and His Life of Troubles [19]
- The Whistler in the Rocks [22]
- The Pack-rat and His Museum [23]
- A Free Trader [25]
- The Upheaver—The Mole-Gopher [27]
- III. Famous Fur-bearers—Fox, Marten, Beaver and Otter [29]
- The Most Wonderful Fur in the World [32]
- The Poacher and the Silver Fox [35]
- The Villain in Velvet—The Marten [47]
- The Industrious Beaver [48]
- The Dam [51]
- The Otter and His Slide [52]
- IV. Horns and Hoofs and Legs of Speed [55]
- The Bounding Blacktail [57]
- The Mother Blacktail's Race for Life [59]
- The Blacktail's Safety Is in the Hills [62]
- The Elk or Wapiti—The Noblest of all Deer [63]
- Stalking a Band of Elk [64]
- The Bugling Elk [66]
- Snapping a Charging Bull [69]
- The Hoodoo Cow [72]
- The Moose—The Biggest of all Deer [75]
- My Partner's Moose-hunt [76]
- The Siren Call [77]
- The Biggest of Our Game—The Buffalo [80]
- The Shrunken Range [81]
- The Doomed Antelope and His Heliograph [83]
- The Rescued Bighorn [85]
- V. Bats in the Devil's Kitchen [89]
- VI. The Well-meaning Skunk [95]
- His Smell-gun [98]
- The Cruelty of Steel Traps [99]
- Friendliness of the Skunk [100]
- Photographing Skunks at Short Range [101]
- We Share the Shanty with the Skunks [103]
- The Skunk and the Unwise Bobcat [104]
- My Pet Skunks [106]
- VII. Old Silver-grizzle—The Badger [111]
- The Valiant Harmless Badger [112]
- His Sociable Bent [115]
- The Story of the Kindly Badger [116]
- The Evil One [118]
- The Badger that Rescued the Boy [119]
- Finding the Lost One [123]
- Home Again [125]
- The Human Brute [129]
- VIII. The Squirrel and His Jerky-tail Brothers [133]
- The Cheeky Pine Squirrel [134]
- Chipmunks and Ground-squirrels [137]
- The Ground-squirrel that Plays Picket-pin [137]
- Chink and the Picket-pins [139]
- Chipmunks [141]
- The Ground-squirrel that Pretends It's a Chipmunk [142]
- A Four-legged Bird—The Northern Chipmunk [143]
- A Striped Pigmy—The Least Chipmunk [147]
- IX. The Rabbits and Their Habits [151]
- Molly Cottontail—The Clever Freezer [152]
- The Rabbit that Wears Snowshoes [154]
- The Terror of the Mountain Trails [156]
- Bunny's Ride [158]
- The Rabbit Dance [160]
- The Ghost Rabbit [163]
- A Narrow-gauge Mule—The Prairie Hare [164]
- The Bump of Moss that Squeaks [165]
- The Weatherwise Coney [169]
- His Safety Is in the Rocks [171]
- X. Ghosts of the Campfire [175]
- The Jumping Mouse [177]
- The Calling Mouse [179]
- XI. Sneak-cats, Big and Small [185]
- The Bobcat or Mountain Wildcat [186]
- Misunderstood—The Canada Lynx [187]
- The Shyest Thing in the Woods [189]
- The Time I Met a Lion [191]
- In Peril of My Life [194]
- The Dangerous Night Visitor [196]
- XII. Bears of High and Low Degree [201]
- The Different Kinds of Bears [202]
- Bear-trees [203]
- A Peep Into Bear Family Life [204]
- The Day at the Garbage Pile [208]
- Lonesome Johnny [210]
- Further Annals of the Sanctuary [210]
- The Grizzly and the Can [216]
- Appendix: Mammals of Yellowstone Park [221]
List of Half-tone Plates
- A Prairie-dog town [Frontispiece]
- FACING PAGE
- Chink's adventures with the Coyote and the Picket-pin [8]
- (a) The Whistler watching me from the rocks (b) A young Whistler [9]
- Red Fox [32]
- Foxes quarrelling [33]
- Beaver [48]
- Mule-deer [49]
- Blacktail Family [60]
- Blacktail mother with her twins [61]
- A young investigator among the Deer at Fort Yellowstone [64]
- Elk in Wyoming [65]
- Elk on the Yellowstone in Winter [68]
- The first shots at the Hoodoo Cow [69]
- The last shots at the Hoodoo Cow [76]
- Elk on the Yellowstone [77]
- Moose—The Widow [80]
- Buffalo groups [81]
- Near Yellowstone Gate [84]
- Mountain Sheep on Mt. Evarts [85]
- Track record of Bobcat's adventure with a Skunk [98]
- The six chapters of the Bobcat's adventure [102]
- My tame Skunks [103]
- Red-squirrel storing mushrooms for winter use [134]
- Chink stalking the Picket-pin [135]
- The Snowshoe Hare is a cross between a Rabbit and a Snowdrift [150]
- The Cottontail freezing [151]
- The Baby Cottontail that rode twenty miles in my hat [162]
- Snowshoe Rabbits dancing in the light of the lantern [163]
- Snowshoe Rabbits fascinated by the lantern [170]
- The Ghost Rabbit [171]
- The Coney or Calling Hare [178]
- The Coney barns full of hay stored for winter use [179]
- (a) Tracks of Deer escaping and (b) Tracks of Mountain Lion in pursuit [186]
- The Mountain Lion sneaking around us as we sleep [187]
- Sketch of the Bear Family as made on the spot [198]
- Two pages from my journal in the garbage heap [199]
- While I sketched the Bears, a brother camera-hunter was stalking me without my knowledge [206]
- One meets the Bears at nearly every turn in the woods [207]
- The shyer ones take to a tree, if one comes too near [210]
- Clifford B. Harmon feeding a Bear [211]
- The Bears at feeding time [218]
- (a) Tom Newcomb pointing out the bear's mark, (b) E. T. Seton feeding a Bear [219]
- Johnnie Bear: his sins and his troubles [222]
- Johnnie happy at last [223]
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The Cute Coyote