CONTENTS OF APPENDIX.

PAGES.
PRELIMINARY TO THE APPENDIX,[431], 432
CHAPTER FIRST.
COME TO THE GREAT WEST—SHOULD THERE NOT BE COMPULSORY EMIGRATION—"GET
A GOOD READY"—HOMESTEAD LAWS AND REGULATIONS—THE
STATE OF KANSAS—THE COST OF A FARM—A FEW MORE
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS,[433]-450
CHAPTER SECOND.
HUNTING THE BUFFALO—ANTELOPE HUNTING—ELK HUNTING—TURKEY
HUNTING—GENERAL REMARKS—WHAT TO DO IF LOST ON THE PLAINS—THE
NEW FIELD FOR SPORTSMEN,[451]-463
CHAPTER THIRD.
"BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES"—THE GREAT WEST—FALL
OF THE RIVERS—THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS AND VALLEYS OF
BUFFALO LAND—THE VALLEY OF THE PLATTE—THE SOLOMON AND
SMOKY HILL RIVERS—THE ARKANSAS RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES—STOCK
RAISING IN THE GREAT WEST—THE CATTLE HIVE OF NORTH
AMERICA—THE CLIMATE OF THE PLAINS—CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE
PLAINS—THE TREES AND FUTURE FORESTS OF THE PLAINS—THE
SUPPLY OF FUEL—DISTRICTS CONTIGUOUS TO THE PLAINS—THE VALLEYS
OF THE WHITE EARTH AND NIOBRARA—NEW MEXICO: ITS
SOIL, CLIMATE, RESOURCES, ETC.—THE DISAPPEARING BISON—THE
FISH WITH LEGS—THE MOUNTAIN SUPPLY OF LUMBER FOR THE
PLAINS,[465]-503

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

From Original Drawings by Henry Worrall, and Actual Photographs.
The Engraving by the Bureau of Illustration, Buffalo, N. Y.

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Frontispiece,[Facing Title Page]
Alaskan Lovers—Sealing the Contract,[27]
Alaskan Game of Old Sledge,[27]
"Waukarusa,"[33]
"Toasts his Moccasined Feet by the Fire,"[33]
The Professor—a Remarkable Stone,[39]
Tammany Sachem—Prospective and Retrospective,[39]
Colon and Semi-colon,[43]
David Pythagoras, M. D.,[43]
One of the Muggses,[47]
Shamus Dobeen—His Card,[53]
Hon. T. Gripe (Beatified),[53]
"Sperit, Gentlemen!"[57]
Our First Bird-Shooting,[67]
Judge Lynch—His Court,[77]
Unnaturalized,[91]
Naturalized,[91]
"You've Riled That Brook"—An Old Fable Modernized,[96]
Dog Town—The Happy Family,[96]
Indian Rock—From a Photograph,[105]
Mushroom Rock—From a Photograph,[105]
Fire on the Plains, according to Novels,[115]
Fire on the Plains, as it is,[115]
"And Erin's Son Christens those Far-off Points of the Pacific Railroad with his Blood,"[127]
Gentle Zephyrs—Going off without a Drawback,[133]
"Looked like the End of a Tail,"[137]
The Rare Old Plainsman of the Novels,[137]
Wild Bill—From a Photograph,[147]
Buffalo Bill—From a Photograph,[147]
Our Horses Run Away with Us,[157]
The Pipe of Peace—The Professor's Dilemma,[167]
White Wolf at Home,[172]
The Wild Denizens of the Plains,[197]
Smashing a Cheyenne Black-Kettle,[219]
Midnight Serenade on the Plains,[227]
Going after Ammunition,[259]
Battle between Cheyennes and Pawnees,[271]
One of our Specimens—Photographed by J. Lee Knight, Topeka,[301]
Wanton Destruction of Buffalo, Embracing:
Daily, for Fun,[315]
300 a Day for Pleasure,[315]
For Excitement,[315]
100,000 for Tongues,[315]
2,000,000 for Robes, to get Whisky,[315]
Dug Out,[329]
Taking and Being Taken,[335]
Developing—One of the First Families,[348]
The Sea which once Covered the Plains,[357]
Waconda Da—Great Spirit Salt Spring,[399]
More of our Specimens (Photographed by J. Lee Knight), Embracing:
Prairie Chickens,[413]
Head of an Elk,[413]
Wild Turkey,[413]
Beaver,[413]