[ CHAPTER VII.]
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Hunting. Its Benefits to the Soldier. Buffalo. Deer. Antelope. Bear. Big-horn, or Mountain Sheep. Their Habits, and Hints upon the best Methods of hunting them.
[ Itineraries.]
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[ Appendix.]
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- Page
- Map of Overland routes[at end of volume.]
- Fort Smith, Arkansas[Frontispiece.]
- Swimming a Horse[78]
- Diagram for Measurements[81]
- Crossing a Stream[87]
- Grimsley's Pack-saddle[99]
- California Saddle[119]
- Half-faced Camp[134]
- Conical Bivouac[135]
- Tent Knapsack[137]
- Comanche Lodge[140]
- Sibley Tent[143]
- Camp Chairs[145]
- Camp Table—Field Cot[146]
- Field Cot—Camp Bureau[148]
- Mess-chest[149]
- Horse-litter[151]
- Hand-litter[154]
- The Grizzly[167]
- Horse-tracks[178]
- Keep away![209]
- Calling up Antelopes[245]
- The Needles[254]
- Chimney Rock[269]
- Devil's Gate[271]
- Well in the Desert[292]
- Map of the Pike's Peak Gold Region[296]
- Sangre de Cristo Pass[300]
- San Francisco Mountain[309]
- Cañon on Bill Williams's Fork[312]
- Artillery Peak[313]
PREFACE.
A quarter of a century's experience in frontier life, a great portion of which has been occupied in exploring the interior of our continent, and in long marches where I have been thrown exclusively upon my own resources, far beyond the bounds of the populated districts, and where the traveler must vary his expedients to surmount the numerous obstacles which the nature of the country continually reproduces, has shown me under what great disadvantages the "voyageur" labors for want of a timely initiation into those minor details of prairie-craft, which, however apparently unimportant in the abstract, are sure, upon the plains, to turn the balance of success for or against an enterprise.
This information is so varied, and is derived from so many different sources, that I still find every new expedition adds substantially to my practical knowledge, and am satisfied that a good Prairie Manual will be for the young traveler an addition to his equipment of inappreciable value.