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I.Introduction[3]
II.Alexander Henry—I[13]
III.Alexander Henry—II[36]
IV.Jonathan Carver[57]
V.Alexander Mackenzie—I[84]
VI.Alexander Mackenzie—II[102]
VII.Alexander Mackenzie—III[121]
VIII.Lewis and Clark—I[138]
IX.Lewis and Clark—II[154]
X.Lewis and Clark—III[169]
XI.Lewis and Clark—IV[179]
XII.Lewis and Clark—V[190]
XIII.Zebulon M. Pike—I[207]
XIV.Zebulon M. Pike—II[226]
XV.Zebulon M. Pike—III[238]
XVI.Alexander Henry (The Younger)—I[253]
XVII.Alexander Henry (The Younger)—II[271]
XVIII.Alexander Henry (The Younger)—III[287]
XIX.Ross Cox—I[301]
XX.Ross Cox—II[319]
XXI.The Commerce of the Prairies—I[330]
XXII.The Commerce of the Prairies—II[341]
XXIII.Samuel Parker[359]
XXIV.Thomas J. Farnham—I[372]
XXV.Thomas J. Farnham—II[382]
XXVI.Fremont—I[393]
XXVII.Fremont—II[405]
XXVIII.Fremont—III[415]
XXIX.Fremont—IV[428]
XXX.Fremont—V[435]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Captains Lewis and Clark Were Much Puzzled at This Point to Know Which of the Rivers Before Them Was the Main Missouri[Frontispiece]
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“I Now Resigned Myself to the Fate with Which I Was Menaced”[28]
A Man of the Naudowessie
From Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, by Jonathan Carver		[62]
A Man of the Ottigaumies
From Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, by Jonathan Carver		[62]
Alexander Mackenzie
From Mackenzie’s Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America, etc.		[84]
Mackenzie and the Men Jumped Overboard[118]
Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Monument at Colorado Springs, Colorado[208]
Buffalo on the Southern Plains
From Kendall’s Narrative of the Texas Santa Fé Expedition		[236]
Two Men Mounted on Her Back, but She Was as Active with This Load as Before[270]
Fur Traders of the North[280]
Astoria in 1813
From Franchere’s Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America		[302]
Caravan on the March
From Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairies		[334]
Wagons Parked for the Night
From Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairies		[340]
Trappers Attacked by Indians
From an old print by A. Tait		[360]
Train Stampeded by Wild Horses
From Bartlett’s Texas, New Mexico, California, etc.		[372]
Major-General John C. Fremont[394]
An Oto Council
From James’s An Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains by Major Stephen H. Long.		[414]
MAP
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Routes of Some of the Pathfinders[2]

TRAILS OF THE PATHFINDERS