CHAPTER XXIX.
OUR LAST NIGHT TOGETHER--THE REMARKABLE SHED-TAIL DOG--HE RESCUES HIS MISTRESS, AND BREAKS UP A MEETING--A SKETCH OF TERRITORIAL TIMES BY GRIPE--MONTGOMERY'S EXPEDITION FOR THE RESCUE OF JOHN BROWN'S COMPANIONS--SCALPED, AND CARVING HIS OWN EPITAPH--AN IRISH JACOB--"SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"--SACHEM'S POETICAL LETTER--POPPING THE QUESTION ON THE RUN--THE PROFESSOR'S LETTER, 416-428
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._
PAGE
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
BUFFALO LAND.