[C H A P T E R X X X V I I I.]
Meek as U.S. Marshal—The Captain of the Melvin—The British Smuggler—Returning a Compliment—"Barly Enough for the Officers of the Court"—Misused Confidence—Indian Disturbances—The Indian War of 1855-6—Gen. Wool and Gov. Curry—Officers of the War—How the Volunteers Fared—Meek as a Volunteer—Feasting and Fun—"Marking Time"—End of Meek's Public Career, 417
ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. [English Tourists' Camp—Doubtful Friends.] —Frontispiece.
[Winter Couriers of the North-West Fur Company] ,23 [A Station of the Hudson's Bay Company] ,30 [Watching for Indian Horse-Thieves] ,38 [Map of the Fur Country] ,40 [The Enlistment] , 42 [The Summer Rendezvous] ,48 [Beavers at Work] ,66 [Hunters' Winter Camp] ,81 [The Three "Bares,"] 92 [The Wrong End of the Tree] ,94 [Scouts in the Blackfoot Country—"Elk or Indians?"] ,132 [Branding Cattle in Southern California] ,150 [A Fight with Camanches—The Mule Fort] ,155 [View on the Columbia] ,165 [The Free Trapper's Indian Wife] ,177 "[Indians, by Jove!] " 200 [Descending the Blue Mountains] ,211 [The Bear in Camp] ,219 [Satisfied with Bear Fighting] ,221 [Cache] ,227 [The Trapper's Last Shot] ,230 [The Squaw's Escape] ,231 [Horse-Tail Falls] ,245 [A Buffalo Hunt] ,246 [Castle Rock, Columbia River] ,263 [Wrecked in the Rapids] ,294 [A Wild Indian in Town] ,307 [The Cascade Mountain Road-Hunters] , 317 [Mount Hood from the Dalles] , 343 [Massacre of the Whitman Family] , 344 [Meek as a Steamboat Runner] ,375 "[Take Care Knox] ," 385 [A Mountain-man in Clover] ,392 [Gov. Lane and Meek on the Colorado Desert] , 401 [Meek as U.S. Marshal—Scene in a Court-room] , 413
WINTER COURIERS OF THE NORTH-WEST FUR COMPANY.
