Category: Adventure

The Island Trapper; or, The Young White-Buffalo Hunters

“Dash me! if I didn’t hear music. Tecumseh, ye heard it, too, for I saw ye prick yer ears before I told ye to stop. Where is the white man who has the audacity to be musical in the Pawnee country? Dash me! I’d like to see him; I’d like to take ’im back to the States and presen...

Chapters

14. CHAPTER XIV.

“I’m with you, Shack, now, to the last!” cried Tom. “Take the girls and make at once for the boys on the horses. I’ll revolver every red-skin in the way; so come on!” and forwar...

3. CHAPTER III.

The occupants of the Pale Pawnee’s lodge awaited, with fear, anxiety and impatience, his return. They had witnessed his departure with Red Eagle, and they felt that something te...

1. CHAPTER I.

“Dash me! if I didn’t hear music. Tecumseh, ye heard it, too, for I saw ye prick yer ears before I told ye to stop. Where is the white man who has the audacity to be musical in...

10. CHAPTER X.

“I pulled wool over the Pawnees’ eyes this time, Tom,” he said, familiarly, and with a broad smile. “The water tells me that I make a handsome Indian. You see I can play the Cro...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

His weight, though not great, seemed to take him down, and the Indians, seeing this, set up wild yells for assistance. Meanwhile, they tugged with all their strength at the lass...

7. CHAPTER VII.

Winnesaw, the Pawnee girl, could not conjecture how Charley Shafer had fallen into the hands of the thirty braves. She had witnessed the departure of Tom Kyle and his red maraud...

9. CHAPTER IX.

Tom Kyle was thrown into the only strong wooden structure that the Pawnee village contained, while the young adventurers were placed in a lodge and guarded by equal numbers of P...

4. CHAPTER IV.

“Dash me, boys, if we ain’t in sight of the old place already,” cried Frontier Shack, abruptly terminating a silence which had lasted for many minutes, during which time Tecumse...

5. CHAPTER V.

The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory. In the gable that looked toward the besiegers a small window was situated, and to this the f...

2. CHAPTER II.

To this scene we turn, for it is time that one of the most prominent actors in our wild western drama should appear in the mad, relentless role he has to play.

6. CHAPTER VI.

As Frontier Shack sprung to the ground to attend to the black stallion, Charley immediately assumed the saddle. He feared that Tecumseh’s restlessness might result in some wild...

11. CHAPTER XI.

Near the close of a beautiful day, an Indian sat in a saddle on the banks of the Arkansas, not far from James’ Peak, and gazed at an object which rapidly approached from the nor...

13. CHAPTER XIII.

“Yes,” he cried; “why did Gold Feather ride to the mountains, and meet the pale-faces in the shadows of the crags? Let him speak the truth, for Tarantulah knows all.”

12. CHAPTER XII.

“Gold Feather is not able to take the girls out through the village. The guard sleeps soundly. Go forth; take his gun, and if he wakes not, make for the hills with soft steps. G...