NAT, THE TRAPPER
AND INDIAN-FIGHTER.
BY PAUL J. PRESCOTT.
NEW YORK:
BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS,
98 WILLIAM STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
FRANK STARR & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
CONTENTS
[I. The Ledge] 9 [II. A Wild Chase] 15 [III. The Friend in Need] 19 [IV. Lost Marion] 26 [V. The Hole in the Hill] 32 [VI. A Happy Meeting] 41 [VII. Holed] 49 [VIII. The Last Hope] 60 [IX. Ho-Ho! and Away!] 68 [X. An Unwelcome Visitor] 73 [XI. The Last of Earth] 78 [XII. Conclusion] 82
NAT, THE TRAPPER.
CHAPTER I.
THE LEDGE.
Toward noon of a pleasant June day, 18—, a man, mounted on a powerful animal of the mustang breed, was riding slowly over the plain, some distance south-east of the great South Pass.
His appearance was striking. In hight he was rather more than six feet, his legs and arms being long and lank in the extreme. His eyes were small, gray and piercing, and remarkably deep-set; his face rather thin and cadaverous, the lower part being covered with a scanty growth of grizzled beard. Add to these not very handsome features a wide, though good-natured looking mouth, and a nose of extraordinary length, and he presented a startling, not to say ludicrous, appearance.