WE SAW HIM STOOP OVER THE FALLEN MAN, THEN RISE WITH A BOW AND A SHIELD THAT HE WAVED ALOFT

Contents

I. [A Company DISSOLVES AND A New Venture Starts ]1
II. [A Hostile Tribe LEAVES Footprints ]22
III. [Far Thunder RIDS THE Plains OF A Rascal ]41
IV. [The Steamboat REFUSES TO STOP ]61
V. [Two Crows RAISE THEIR Right Hands ]79
VI. [Abbott FIRES INTO A Clump OF Sagebrush ]99
VII. [Lame Wolf PRAYS TO HIS Raven ]119
VIII. [The Mandans SING THEIR Victory Song ]139
IX. [Big Lake CALLS A Council ]158
X. [The River TAKES ITS Toll ]174

Illustrations

[We saw him stoop over the fallen man, then rise with a bow and a shield that he waved aloft ]Frontispiece
[We found the tracks of their bare feet in the mud ]40
[At last we had all the horses in lead and with fast-beating hearts ... started toward the river ]102
[Away we went, leaving behind us more than three hundred fine horses ]178