"They started flight"
(See page [119].)

CONTENTS

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[List of Illustrations]VI
[Foreword] VII
[Chapter I.]Forsaking the Old, in Quest of the New. First Camp. Fording the Platte1
[Chapter II.]Laramie Fashions and Sioux Etiquette. A Trophy. Chimney Rock. A Solitary Emigrant. Jests and Jingles13
[Chapter III.]Lost in the Black Hills. Devil's Gate. Why a Mountain Sheep Did Not Wink. Green River Ferry31
[Chapter IV.]Disquieting Rumors of Redmen. Consolidation for Safety. The Poisonous Humboldt49
[Chapter V.]The Holloway Massacre62
[Chapter VI.]Origin of "Piker." Before the Era of Canned Good and Kodaks. Morning Routine. Typical Bivouac. Sociability Entrained. The Flooded Camp. Hope Sustains Patience76
[Chapter VII.]Tangled by a Tornado. Lost the Pace but Kept the Cow. Human Oddities. Night Guards. Wolf Serenades. Awe of the Wilderness. A Stampede97
[Chapter VIII.]Disaster Overtakes the Wood Family116
[Chapter IX.]Mysterious Visitors. Extra Sentinels. An Anxious Night123
[Chapter X.]Challenge to Battle133
[Chapter XI.]Sagebrush Justice144
[Chapter XII.]Night Travel. Arid Wastes to Limpid Waters160
[Chapter XIII.]Into the Settlements. Halt170

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"They started flight"[Frontispiece]
"Fording the Platte consumed one entire day"[11]
"Wo-haw-Buck"[14]
"From our coign of vantage we continued to shoot"[21]
Chimney Rock[22]
"One melody that he sang from the heart"[27]
"Hauled the delinquent out"[30]
"The wagons were lowered through the crevice"[38]
Bone-writing[57]
"With hand upraised in supplication, yielded to the impulse to flee"[67]
Jerry Bush, 1914[72]
Nancy Holloway, 1857[74]
The Author, twenty years after[100]
A Coyote Serenade[109]
"Van Diveer's advantage was slight but sufficient"[136]
"A sip from the barrel cost fifty cents"[146]
"'Stop,' shouted the Judge"[156]
"'Melican man dig gold"[173]
Pack-mule route to placer diggings[175]