What this opportunity was like, and what astonishing things they met with on the long and dangerous journey, I have endeavored to describe and set down between the covers of this present book. I trust that you will enjoy reading it fully as well as you did the preceding volumes; and that at some date in the near future we may meet again in the pages of still another story of boy pioneer life.

Harrison Adams.

April 15th, 1914.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Preface[v]
I. Two Boys in a Dugout Canoe[1]
II. The Hollow Tree Refuge[15]
III. A Shadow over the Homestead [27]
IV. The Cabin of Bob Armstrong[38]
V. A Grand Palaver[48]
VI. Bad News[58]
VII. Off on the Great Journey[68]
VIII. The Track of the Marked Hoof[76]
IX. Along the Bank of the Missouri[86]
X. The Twang of a Bowstring[98]
XI. “All, or None!”[110]
XII. The Hidden Camp[122]
XIII. On the Billowy Prairie[134]
XIV. The Buffalo Stampede[148]
XV. Safe in the Timber[158]
XVI. The Perils of the Wilderness[169]
XVII. A Close Call[181]
XVIII. Brought to Bay by the Wolf Pack[195]
XIX. The Lost River[207]
XX. Casting Bread upon the Waters[217]
XXI. The Picture Writing on the Bark[227]
XXII. Caught in a River Trap[237]
XXIII. The Rising Waters[247]
XXIV. A Bitter Disappointment[257]
XXV. The Village of the Mandans[270]
XXVI. Strange Sights[286]
XXVII. At the Salt-lick[299]
XXVIII. Running Elk, the Sioux Chief[311]
XXIX. A Desperate Situation[328]
XXX. The Dawn Breaks—Conclusion[337]
Notes[351]