CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI | [ 3] |
| OUR TROOPS ON THE BORDER | [ 27] |
| AT A NEW MINING CAMP | [ 59] |
| A THREE-YEAR-OLD CITY | [ 93] |
| RANCH LIFE IN TEXAS | [ 121] |
| ON AN INDIAN RESERVATION | [ 151] |
| A CIVILIAN AT AN ARMY POST | [ 185] |
| THE HEART OF THE GREAT DIVIDE | [ 215] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| A Bucking Broncho | [ Frontispiece] |
| Head-piece | [ 3] |
| Rangers in Camp | [ 9] |
| “Remember the Alamo!” | [ 19] |
| Trumpeter Tyler | [ 29] |
| Captain Francis H. Hardie, G Troop, Third United States Cavalry | [ 37] |
| Water | [ 43] |
| The Mexican Guide | [ 49] |
| Third Cavalry Troopers—Searching a Suspected Revolutionist | [ 53] |
| Mining Camp on the Range Above Creede | [ 60] |
| Creede | [ 63] |
| How Land is Claimed for Building—Planks Nailed Together andResting on Four Stumps | [ 66] |
| The “Holy Moses” Mine | [ 69] |
| Debatable Ground—A Warning to Trespassers | [ 73] |
| A Mining Camp Court-house | [ 75] |
| Shaft of a Mine | [ 79] |
| Valuable Real Estate | [ 83] |
| Upper Creede | [ 87] |
| Oklahoma City on the Day of the Opening | [ 94] |
| Five Days After the Opening | [ 97] |
| Four Weeks After the Opening | [ 101] |
| Captain D. F. Stiles | [ 105] |
| Post-office, April 22, 1889 | [ 108] |
| Post-office, July 4, 1890 | [ 111] |
| Oklahoma City To-day—Main Broadway | [ 115] |
| The Ranch-house on the King Ranch, the Largest Range Owned byOne Individual in the United States | [ 123] |
| A Shattered Idol | [ 127] |
| Snapping a Rope on a Horse’s Foot | [ 130] |
| Hillingdon Ranch | [ 133] |
| Fixing a Break in the Wire Fence | [ 137] |
| Gathering the Rope | [ 141] |
| Reaction Equals Action | [ 145] |
| Tail-piece | [ 148] |
| The Cheyenne Type | [ 152] |
| Big Bull | [ 155] |
| One of Williamson’s Stages | [ 159] |
| The Beef Issue at Anadarko | [ 163] |
| Indian Boy and Pinto Pony | [ 169] |
| A Kiowa Maiden | [ 175] |
| A One-company Post at Oklahoma City | [ 187] |
| The Omnipotent Bugler | [ 191] |
| United States Military Post at San Antonio | [ 195] |
| United States Cavalryman in Full Dress | [ 199] |
| United States Military Post—Infantry Parade | [ 203] |
| Fort Houston, at San Antonio—Officers’ Quarters | [ 207] |
| The Barracks, Fort Houston | [ 210] |
| Gateway of the Garden of the Gods, and Pike’s Peak | [ 217] |
| Within the Gates, Garden of the Gods | [ 223] |
| Polo Above the Snow-line at Colorado Springs | [ 227] |
| Mount of the Holy Cross | [ 233] |
| Pike’s Peak from Colorado Springs | [ 239] |
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FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI
THE WEST FROM A CAR-WINDOW
By
Richard Harding Davis.
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FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI