The Yellow Chief

The gorge in which the young Cheyenne chief and his followers had made their night bivouac, was only one of a series of similar glens, that with short intervals between, notched...

There were about two score of them in all; and all without exception were men. Not a woman or child was among them. They were young men too; though to this there were several ex...

Making their way up the steep mountain-path, climbing over fallen tree-trunks, obstructed by thicket and scaur, the trappers at length got close to the cliff which, as 'Lije Ort...

The words were spoken in a tone of command, earnest and angry. They were addressed to the overseer of a cotton-plantation not far from Vicksburg, in the State of Mississippi, th...

The sun was already past the meridian when the young Cheyenne chief, coming out from under the wagon tilt, once more showed himself to his captives. Since last seen by them ther...

The two trappers had got about half through their Homeric meal, when a sound reached their ears, that caused them not only to stop mastication, but hold the half-polished ribs s...

He knew her voice, and did his best. He seemed to know, also, why he was thus put to the top of his speed, for under such circumstances the horse seems to be stirred by somethin...

"Near enuf for nothin'. Thar ain't no kiver in that quarter, as I kin see from hyur; an' to cut acrosst the purairia, 'ud be to go strait sartint inter the teeth o' them squalli...

One of the classical names associated with the "commerce of the prairies" is that of _Saint Vrain_. Ever since trapping became a trade, or at all events, since prairie-land, wit...

If the sight of the straying horses had caused surprise to the Indians, not less astonished were they who, within the valley, had been awaiting their approach. The trappers, pla...

While the savage scenes described were being enacted in the mountain valley, a band of horsemen was fast approaching it, making their way around the skirting spurs that at inter...

During this time there was but little change on the plantation of Squire Blackadder; either in the dwellers on the estate, or the administration of its affairs. Neither castigat...

At the new and still strange speech, Snively started again, and Clara Blackadder looked up with a yet still more puzzled expression; while among the blacks there ran a murmur of...

"Now or never!" was the reflection that passed through Clara Blackadder's mind; and she was in the act of springing up from her recumbent position, when a circumstance occurred...

In the time preceding the extinction of slavery, there was no part of the United States where its chain was so galling as in that region lying along the lower Mississippi, known...

The spot selected, or rather to which their Indian guide had conducted them, was in a bend of the stream, that looped around the encampment in the shape of a horse's shoe. It en...

"Theer's somethin' wrong, 'Lije Orton," said Black Harris, after saluting an old comrade. "I can tell that by yur looks, as well's by the purspiration on yur anymal. 'Tain't oft...

The discrimination shown in their punishment led some to entertain a hope. All, both blacks and whites, now knew with whom they had to deal; for, in a whispered conversation amo...

The sun was already close down to the summit of the _sierra_, when the Yellow Chief and his followers once more surmounted the ridge that brought them in sight of the encampment.

It is the day succeeding that event, an hour before mid-day, with a bright sun shining down from a cloudless sky. The stage is the same, but somewhat changed the characters who...

In starting in chase of the straying _cavallada_, the Cheyennes did not go on at full speed. The spectacle of over twenty horses saddled and bridled, wandering about without rid...

There was scarce time for them to do more than pronounce one another's names; but the glance exchanged was eloquent to the hearts of both. Each saw in the other's eyes that the...

Retreating from the edge of the cliff with the same caution as they had approached it, the two mountain men rejoined their companions in ambush. 'Lije, after making known his de...

The thrill that passed through the captives as Blue Dick discovered to them his identity was not so startling to all. With Blount Blackadder and Snively, his words, as well as h...