CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XX.

THE CAMP OF THE WILD HORSE.

Hunter's Stories.-Habits of the Wild Horse.
-The Half-breed and his Prize.-A Horse

Chase. A wild Spirit tamed

CHAPTER XXI.

The Fording of the Red Fork.-The dreary
Forests of the Cross Timber.- Buffalo

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CHAPTER XXII.

THE ALARM CAMP.

Fire. The wild Indians

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CHAPTER XXIII.

Beaver Dam. - Buffalo and Horse-tracks.

A Pawnee Trail.-Wild Horses. - The

young Hunter and the Bear

CHAPTER XXIV.

Scarcity of Bread.-Rencontre with Buffaloes.
-Wild Turkeys.-Fall of a Buffalo Bull

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CHAPTER XXV.

Ringing the Wild Horse

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CHAPTER XXVI.

Fording of the North Fork.-Dreary Scenery
of the Cross Timber.- Scamper of Horses
in the Night.-Osage War Party.- Effects
of a Peace Harangue. Buffalo. Wild

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CHAPTER XXVII.

Foul-weather Encampment. Anecdotes of
Bear-hunting.-Indian Notions about Omens.
-Scruples respecting the Dead

CHAPTER XXVIII.

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A Secret Expedition.-Deer-bleating.—Magic

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Balls

CHAPTER XXIX.

The Grand Prairie.-A Buffalo Hunt

CHAPTER XXX.

A Comrade Lost.-A Search for the Camp.-
The Commissioner, the Wild Horse, and the
Buffalo.-A Wolf Serenade

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A Council in the Camp.-Reasons for facing
Homewards.-Horses lost.-Departure with

a Detachment on the homeward Route.-
Swamp. - Wild Horse. Camp Scene by

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Night. The Owl the Harbinger of Dawn 301

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CHAPTER XXXIV.

Old Creek Encampment.-Scarcity of Provi-
sions.- Bad Weather.-Weary Marching.

A Hunter's Bridge

CHAPTER XXXV.

A Look-out for Land.-Hard travelling and
hungry halting.-A frontier Farm-house.-

Arrival at the Garrison

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COMPANIONS. A COMMISSIONER.-A VIRTUOSO. -A SEEKER OF ADVENTURES. A GIL BLAS OF THE FRONTIER.—A YOUNG MAN'S ANTICIPATIONS OF PLEASURE.

In the often-vaunted regions of the far West, several hundred miles beyond the Mississippi, extends a vast tract of uninhabited country, where there is neither to be seen the loghouse of the white man nor the wigwam of the Indian. It consists of great grassy plains, interspersed with forests and groves and clumps of trees, and watered by the

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