Crossing the Plains, Days of '57. Wm. Audley Maxwell

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       FOREWORD

       CROSSING THE PLAINS DAYS OF '57

       CHAPTER I.

       FORSAKING THE OLD IN QUEST OF THE NEW. FIRST CAMP. FORDING THE PLATTE.

       CHAPTER II.

       LARAMIE FASHIONS AND SIOUX ETIQUETTE. A TROPHY. CHIMNEY ROCK. A SOLITARY EMIGRANT. JESTS AND JINGLES

       CHAPTER III.

       LOST IN THE BLACK HILLS. DEVIL'S GATE. WHY A MOUNTAIN SHEEP DID NOT WINK. GREEN RIVER FERRY.

       CHAPTER IV.

       DISQUIETING RUMORS OF REDMEN. CONSOLIDATION FOR SAFETY. THE POISONOUS HUMBOLDT.

       CHAPTER V.

       THE HOLLOWAY MASSACRE.

       CHAPTER VI.

       ORIGIN OF "PIKER." BEFORE THE ERA OF CANNED GOODS AND KODAKS. MORNING ROUTINE. TYPICAL BIVOUAC. SOCIABILITY ENTRAINED. THE FLOODED CAMP. HOPE SUSTAINS PATIENCE.

       CHAPTER VII.

       TANGLED BY A TORNADO. LOST THE PACE BUT KEPT THE COW. HUMAN ODDITIES. NIGHT-GUARDS. WOLF SERENADES. AWE OF THE WILDERNESS. A STAMPEDE.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       DISASTER OVERTAKES THE WOOD FAMILY.

       CHAPTER IX.

       MYSTERIOUS VISITORS. EXTRA SENTRIES. AN ANXIOUS NIGHT.

       CHAPTER X.

       CHALLENGE TO BATTLE.

       CHAPTER XI.

       SAGEBRUSH JUSTICE.

       CHAPTER XII.

       NIGHT TRAVEL, FROM ARID WASTES TO LIMPID WATERS.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       INTO THE SETTLEMENTS. HALT.

       END.