Index:Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains.djvu

Title	Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains
Author	William F. Drannan
Year	1904
Publisher	Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co.
Location	Chicago
Source	djvu
Progress	To be proofread
Transclusion	Index not transcluded or unreviewed

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CONTENTS.

Chapter I. A Boy Escapes a Tyrant and Pays a Debt with a Hornet's Nest Meets Kit Carson and Becomes the Owner of a Pony and a Gun	17-31
Chapter 2. Beginning of an Adventurous Life First Wild Turkey First Buffalo First Feast as an Honored Guest of Indians Dog Meat	32-47
Chapter 3. Hunting and Trapping in South Park. Where a Boy, Unaided, Kills and Scalps Two Indians Meeting with Fremont, the "Path-finder".	47-73
Chapter 4. A Winter in North Park Running Fight with a Band of Utes for More than a Hundred Miles, Ending Hand to Hand Victory	73-82
Chapter 5. On the Cache-la- Poudre Visit from Gray Eagle, Chief of the Arapahoes. A Bear-hunttr is Hunted by the Bear Phil, the Cannibal	83- 96
Chapter 6. Two Boys Ride to the City of Mexico Eleven Hundred Miles of Trial, Danger and Duty A Gift Horse The Wind River Mountains	96-104
Chapter 7. A Three Days' Battle Between the

Comanches and the Utes for the Possession of a "Hunter's Paradise"—An Unseasonable Bath.	105-119
Chapter 8. Kit Carson Kills a Hudson Bay Company's Trapper, Who "Was Spoiling for a Fight—Social Good Time with a Train of Emigrants	119-129
Chapter 9. Marriage of Kit Carson—The Wedding Feast—Providing Buffalo Meat, in the Original Package, for the Boarding-house at Bent's Fort	130-141
Chapter10. Robber Gamblers of San Francisco—Engaged by Col. Elliott as Indian Scout—Kills and Scalps Five Indians—Promoted to Chief Scout	141-158
Chapter11. A Lively Battle with Pah-Utes—Pinned to Saddle with an Arrow—Some Very Good Indians Stuttering Captain—Beckwith Opens His Pass.	159-175
Chapter12—Col. Elliott Kills His First Deer, and Secures a Fine Pair of Horns as Present for His Father— Beckwith's Tavern—Society	175-185
Chapter13—Something Worse than Fightinp Indians Dance at Col. Elliott's—Conspicuous Suit of Buckskin I Manage to Get Back to Beckwith's	186-191
Chapter 14. Drilling the Detailed Scouts—We Get Among the Utes—Four Scouts Have Not Reported Yet—Another Lively Fight—Beckwith Makes a Raise	191-210

Chapter 15. A Hunt on Petaluma Creek Elk Fever Breaks Out The Expedition to Klamath Lake A Lively Brush with Modoc Indians	211-222
Chapter 16. More Fish than I Had Ever Seen at One Time We Surprise Some Indians, Who Also Surprise Us The Camp at Klamath Lake I Get Another Wound and a Lot of Horses	223-233
Chapter 17. Discovery of Indians with Stolen Horses We Kill the Indians and Return the Property to Its Owners Meeting of Miners In Society Again.	233-245
Chapter 18.- Trapping on the Gila The Pimas Impart a Secret Rescue of a White Girl A Young Indian Agent Visit to Taos Uncle Kit Fails to Recognize Me.	245-267
Chapter 19. A Warm Time in a Cold Country A Band of Bannocks Chase Us Into a Storm that Saves Us Kit Carson Slightly Wounded Beckwith Makes a Century Run	267-283
Chapter 20. Carson Quits the Trail Buffalo Robes for Ten Cents "Pike's Peak or Bust" The New City of Denver "Busted" How the News Started.	283-292
Chapter 21. A Fight With the Sioux Hasa, the Mexican Boy, Killed Mixed Up With Emigrants Some More Four New Graves Successful Trading With the Kiowas	292-308

Chapter 22. A Trip to Fort Kearney The General Endorses Us and We Pilot an Emigrant Train to California Woman Who Thought I Was "no Gentleman" A Camp Dance	308-332
Chapter 23. Bridger and West Give Christmas a High Old Welcome in Sacramento California Gulch Meeting with Buffalo Bill Thirty-three Scalps with One Knife	333-351
Chapter 24. Face to Face with a Band of Apaches The Death of Pinto The Closest Call I Ever Had A Night Escape Back at Fort Douglas	351-360
Chapter 25. Three Thousand Dead Indians A De- tective from Chicago He Goes Home with an Old Mormon's Youngest Wife and Gets into Trouble The Flight	360-374
Chapter 26. Through to Bannock A Dance of Peace Fright of the Negroes A Freight Train Snowed in and a Trip on Snow-shoes Some Very Tough Road Agents	374-387
Chapter 27. Organization of a Vigilance Committe End of the Notorious Slade One Hundred Dollars for a "Crow-bait" Horse Flour a Dollar a Pound.	388-395
Chapter 28. Twenty-two Thousand Dollars in Gold Dust A Stage Robbery Another Trip to California Meeting with Gen Crook Chief of Scouts.	396-404

Chapter 29. Find Some Murdered Emigrants We Bury the Dead and Follow and Scaip the Indians Gen. Crook Is Pleased with the Outcome A Mojave Blanket	404-421
Chapter 30. A Wicked Little Battle Capture of One Hundred and Eighty-two Horses Discovery of Black Canyon Fort Yuma and the Paymaster	422-434
Chapter 31. To California for Horses My Beautiful Mare, Black Bess We Get Sixty-six Scalps and Seventy-eight Horses A Clean Sweep	435-444
Chapter 32. Some Men Who Were Anxious for a Fight and Got It Gen. Crook at Black Canyon—Bad Mistake of a Good Man The Victims.!	444-452
Chapter 33. The Massacre at Choke Cherry Canyon Mike Maloney Gets Into a Muss Rescue of White Girls Mike Gets Even with the Apaches.	452-466
Chapter 34. Massacre of the Davis Family A Hard Ride and Swift Retribution A Pitiful Story Burial of the Dead I am Sick of the Business.	466-475
Chapter 35 Black Bess Becomes Popular in San Francisco A Failure as Rancher Buying Horses in Oregon The Klamath Marsh Captain Jack the Modoc	475-583
Chapter 36. The Modoc War—Gen. Wheaton Is Held

Off by the Indians—Gen. Canby Takes Command and Gets It Worse—Massacre of the Peace Commission	484-503
Chapter 37 The Cry of a Babe—Capture of a Bevy of Squaws—Treachery of Gen. Ross' Men in Killing Prisoners—Capture of the Modoc Chief	503-515
Chapter 38. Story of the Captured Braves—Why Captain Jack Deserted—Loathsome Condition of the Indian Stronghold—End of the War—Some Comments	516-524
Chapter 39. An Interested Boy—Execution of the Modoc Leaders—Newspaper Messengers—A Very Sudden Deputy Sheriff—A Bad Man Wound Up	525-539
Chapter 40. In Society Some More—A Very Tight Place—Ten Pairs of Yankee Ears—Black Bess Shakes Herself at the Right Time—Solemn Compact.	539-552
Chapter 41. We Locate a Small Band of Red Butchers and Send them to the Happy Hunting Grounds—Emigrants Mistake Us for Indians—George Jones Wounded	553~561
Chapter 42. "We Are All Surrounded" A Bold Dash and a Bad Wound—Mrs. Davis Shows Her Gratitude—Most of My Work Now Done on Crutches.	562-567
Chapter 43. Poor Jones Makes His Last Fight—He

Died Among a Lot of the Devils He Had Slain End of Thirty-one Years of Hunting, Trapping and Scouting	567-572
Chapter 44. A Grizzley Hunts the Hunter Shooting Seals in Alaskan Waters I Become a Seattle Hotel Keeper and the Big Fire Closes Me Out Some Rest The Old Scout's Lament	573-586