TO MY FATHER
JOSEPH RANDALL HANSON,
WHO, AS A BOY AND YOUNG MAN ON
THE OLD DAKOTA FRONTIER, LIVED
THROUGH MORE ADVENTURES THAN A
VOLUME COULD DESCRIBE

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I The Scourge of the Border[9]
II The Flight Through the Darkness[35]
III Besieged in Fort Ridgely[54]
IV Refugees[77]
V Hope Deferred[95]
VI On General Sully's Staff[119]
VII Up the Missouri[130]
VIII Prairie Marching[149]
IX The Revenge of the Coyotes[167]
X The Fort on the River[183]
XI Trailing the Hostiles[207]
XII The Battle of Tahkahokuty[224]
XIII Beset in the Bad Lands[253]
XIV Te-o-kun-ko[279]
XV In the Wake of the Grasshoppers[302]
XVI Adrift in a Barge[319]
XVII Captured by Guerillas[345]
XVIII The Defence of Glasgow[372]
XIX Reunited[394]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Catching up a heavy stick he hurled it at the head of one of the warriors [Frontispiece]
She charged at him as he fired[159]
The Indian raised his rifle to shoot Corporal Wright[179]
He was just pulling himself up[247]
Bill Cotton protects Al from the guerilla[355]