The Young Trail Hunters Or The Wild Riders Of The Plains The Ve

The Wild Mustangs.--Hal and Ned.--The Black and the Bay.--Manuel the Herder.--The Mustang-breaker.--Life on a Stock Ranche.--A Sudden Start.-- On the Road.--The Lone Mule.--The...

Under the Wagons.--The Lost Stock.--Jerry Vance the Wagon-master.--His Pluck is aroused.--We take the Trail.--The Comanche Camp.--A Surprise.-- The Result.--Visitors.--Cuchillo,...

The Return to Camp.--The Boys Missing.--A Search.--Treed.--The Wild Mexican Hogs.--An Adventure.-The Combat.--The Release.--A Cry of Distress.--An Ugly Customer--The Panther.--A...

Jerry's Story.--"Byse hain't got no Bizness on the Plains, nohow."--A Hunting Expedition.--Antonio, the "Mustanger" of the Leona.--"Creasing" a Wild Horse.--The Prairie-dog Town...

Comanches in the Distance.--Attacked.--The Fight.--The Arapahoe Scout to the Rescue.--Wounded.--Comanche Signals.--More Trouble.--The Ambuscade.-- A Night Attack.--A Mule killed...

The Track in the Sand.--What made it.--A Lesson on Trailing.--What constitutes a good Woodsman.--A Discovery.--Indians.--A Female Captive To the Rescue.--Our Ride.--A Run for Li...

The San Pedro.--An Antelope Hunt.--We strike a Fresh Trail.--An Attack of "Buck Fever."--Hal a Victim.--I endeavor to comfort him.--A Promise.--The Black-tailed Deer.--The Call...

The Comanche War Trail.--A Visitor in Camp.--Hal loses his Pony.--An Adventure with a Horse-thief.--Creeping Serpent.--Hints on Horse-stealing. --Dust in the Distance. Hal recog...

Juanita captured.--A Brutal Murder.--Once more on the Trail.--We lose it.--The Hide for Life.--Return to Camp.--The Messenger to the Fort.-- Terrible News.--The Dragoons in the...

Tom Pope the Scout.--His Report.--An Expedition planned.--Tom's Story.-- A Comanche Village.--The Prisoner.--A New Way of Cooking Steak.--Big Eagle the Chief.--An Escape, and Pu...

The Tell-tale, and what it said.--Jerry's Decision.--The Ride.--A Reconnoissance.--The Indian Camp.--Military Rule.--A Happy Thought.--The Rifle-shot.--The Rescue.--How Ned obey...

Once more on the Road.--We cross the Rio Grande.--Mesilla.--Hal's Purchase.--A False Alarm.--A Ludicrous Scene.--An Unexpected Arrival in Camp.--Patsey's Adventure with the "Div...

A Bear Hunt.--Patsey explains.--A Promise.--Continuation of Hal's Story.-- Warm Blood.--A Feast of Mule Meat.--The Mountain Cave.--A Punishment.-- Despair.--The Crack of a Rifle...

The Herd in Danger.--We rally.--The Fight.--Death and Burial.--Patsey in Trouble.--"Shnakes."--A Lively Dance for a "ded Mon."--Rocky Mountain Sheep.--A Description of them.--Th...

Hal's Trade.--The New Mule.--A Storm.--Patsey's Ride. A Laughable Adventure.--We start at last.--The Pimo Indians.--Manners and Manufactures.--A Duck Hunt.--"How they hoont Duck...

We immediately started towards the corral; but, before reaching it, I saw the herd coming over the plain towards us, their heads high in air, as though sniffing the morning bree...

As the Indians swept by us, like a whirlwind, Jerry exclaimed, "Them ain't nothin' but a pack of thieves, tryin' to stampede our stock. If ther boys tied them mules squar, they...

Our arrival in camp, during the afternoon, was the signal for a general rejoicing among the men, who loudly applauded the determination and pluck shown by Jerry in pursuing and...

"I didn't see the critter when he jumped; not till he lit right onto my shoulder, and the heft of him hed knocked me down and he was atop o' me. Yer see that gin him a heap the...

On the following morning the camp was astir and we were under way at a very early hour,--long before sunrise, in fact,--but we had hardly proceeded a mile from our halting-place...

"It's a bear's track," rejoined I. "You certainly are mistaken, Jerry. Look! here is the imprint of the heel, and there the toes, as plain as the nose on your face, and as clear...

On the evening of the second day after the incidents narrated in the previous chapter, we encamped on the banks of the San Pedro, with wood, water, and grass in abundance; in fa...

The following morning, we once more took the road, and for three days followed the course of the river, which carried us through the most undesirable portion of country we had y...

As soon as I could get upon my feet, I inquired for Jerry, and was told he was looking after the mules. I immediately sent for him, and he came, accompanied by Don Ignacio, who,...

At my request, the scout was sent for. He proved to be a keen, shrewd Yankee, who had spent the last twenty years of his life, among the mountains of New Mexico.

As soon as I dared trust myself to speak, I said, in a tone of voice that I was conscious must betray my anxiety to hear my own opinion condemned,--

We remained in camp the next day, visiting the officers at the fort, and taking our farewell of them, with many regrets. Nor did we forget a generous reminder to Tom Pope, to wh...

"I reckon we'd better mount and ride slowly towards camp," said Jerry. "Ef we do we shall get there some time ter-night, but ef we stay here we shan't, that's sartin."

"Why, yer see the boy had been a-proddin' the critter with a sharp stick; and, arter he got through, he was a-standin' by the wagon, and the bar made a jump and ketched him righ...

Telling Hal and Ned to climb the rocks and report what they saw, I ordered the wagons to be drawn up in a line parallel with the foot of the bluff, thus improvising a sort of co...

Tucson is located in the heart of the great silver and gold bearing regions of Arizona, and it was exceedingly difficult to prevent the boys from loading themselves with specime...