TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
WESLEY BUILDINGS
MONTREAL: C. W. COATES ——— HALIFAX: S. F. HUESTIS
1896
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, by WILLIAM BRIGGS, at the Department of Agriculture.
CONTENTS.
[THE WARDEN OF THE PLAINS]
[ASOKOA, THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER]
[THE SKY PILOT]
[THE LONE PINE]
[THE WRITING STONE]
[AKSPINE]
[OLD GLAD]
[THE SPIRIT GUIDE]
[ALAHCASLA]
[THE HIDDEN TREASURE]
[THE WHITE MAN'S BRIDE]
[THE COMING OF APAUAKAS]
THE WARDEN OF THE PLAINS.
In the wide western plains at the base of the Rocky Mountains, where countless buffalo once found luxuriant feeding-grounds, the white man's cattle were roaming in tens of thousands. It was the time of the "round up." The cowboys had been scouring the plain for hundreds of miles gathering in the cattle and horses, banding them and driving them into the corral, there to be counted and the young branded.
The "round up" party had camped for the night. Many of them were weary from the hard day's riding, and were sitting or lounging about in the tents or on the open prairie, waiting for the supper which others were preparing.
"Hello, Jake!" shouted one of these, as a man who seemed to have sprung from the prairie, so suddenly had he appeared, rode into the camp.
"All right, Bill," was the reply of the new-comer, uttered in a short but friendly tone.