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Lariat or Rope 282 8. On Neatness and the War-bag 283 9. On Tea 283
10. On the Medicine Kit 283 11. On the Straight-foot Walk 284 12. On
Sign Language 284 13. On Sign for Bird Flying 286 14. On Making the
Tarp Bed 286 15. On the Reflector Oven--and a Shovel 287 16. On a
Whistle Code 287 17. On Brushing Teeth and Hair 287 18. On
Snagging Fish 287 19. On Drying Boots 288 20. On Records and Maps
288 21. On Right or Left Footedness 288 22. On Weather Warnings
289 23. On Watching Teeth 290 24. On Lightning 290 25. On Bedding
Place 290 26. On Cooking 290 27. On the Tarp Shelter Tent 291 28.
On Guns 291 29. On Treating Pack-Animals 292 30. On the Scout
Camp Place 292 31. On Camp-Law Protection 292 32. On Division of
Guard Duty 292 33. On Trailing 292 34. On Marking the Trail 293 35.
On Respecting the Enemy 293 36. On the Parole 293 37. On the Sign
for Escape 294 38. On Tying a Prisoner 294 40. On Making a Fire 296
41. On the Clock of the Heavens 296 42. On Stars 298 43. On Sunday
300 44. On Smoke Signals 300 45. On Surgical Supplies 301 46. On
Antiseptics 302 47. On Climbing Trees 303 48. On Wigwags and Other
Motion Signaling 303 49. On Sprains 308 50. On Caches 309 51. On
Use of Medicines 310 52. On Forest Fires 311 53. On Fire Fighting 312
54. On Deep Wounds 313 55. On the Squaw Hitch 314 56. On
Picketing and Hobbling 315 57. On Respecting Nature 316 58. On
Dislocations 316 59. On Litters for Wounded 317 60. On Jerked Meat
318 61. On Dressing Pelts 319 62. On Aluminum 320 63. On "Levez!"
320 64. On Appendicitis 320 65. On the Nose of Horse and Mule 321
66. On Being a Scout 321
[Transcriber's note: Note 39 was not referenced in this table.]

PICTURE SIGNS
"'You git!' he ordered" Frontispiece
OPPOSITE PAGE

"Bill Duane went through him" 78 "It was our private Elk Patrol code"
178 "Like cave-men or trappers we descended" 214

THE ROLL CALL
THE ELK PATROL OF COLORADO:
First-class Scout Roger Franklin, or General William Ashley.
First-class Scout Tom Scott, or Major Andrew Henry. First-class Scout
Harry Leonard, or Kit Carson. First-class Scout Chris Anderson, or
Thomas Fitzpatrick the Bad Hand. Second-class Scout "Little" Dick
Smith, or Jedediah Smith. Second-class Scout Charley Brown, or Jim
Bridger.
THE RED FOX PATROL OF NEW JERSEY:
First-class Scout Horace Ward. First-class Scout Edward Van Sant.
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES:
Sally and Apache, the Elk Totem Burros. Bill Duane and his Town
Gang, Who Make the Trail Worse. Bat and Walt, the Renegade
Recruits. The Beaver Man. The Game Warden, the Forest Ranger, the
Cow-puncher, the two Ranch Women, the Doctor; Pilot Peak, Creeks,
Valleys, Hills, Timber, and Sage and Meadows; Rain and Fire and
Flood; the Big Trout, the Mother Bear, the Tame Ptarmigans, etc.
THE LONG TRAIL
Afoot, One Hundred Miles through a Wild Country and over the
Medicine Range. Described by Jim Bridger, with a Few Chapters by
Major Henry.

PLUCK ON THE LONG TRAIL
CHAPTER I

THE LONG TRAIL
We are the Elk Patrol, 14th Colorado Troop, Boy Scouts of America.
Our sign is [Illustration] and our colors are dark green and white, like
the pines and the snowy range. Our patrol call is the whistle of an elk,
which is an "Oooooooooooo!" high up in the head, like a locomotive
whistle. We took the Elk brand (that is the same as totem, you know,
only we say "brand," in the West), because elks are the great
trail-makers in the mountains.
About the hardest thing that we have set out to do yet has been to carry
a secret message across the mountains, one hundred miles, from our
town to another town, with our own pack outfit, and finding our own
trail, and do it in fifteen days including Sundays. That is what I want to
tell about, in this book.
There were six of us who went; and just for fun we called ourselves by
trapper or scout names. We were:
First-class Scout Roger Franklin, or General William Ashley. He is our
patrol leader. He is fifteen years old, and red-headed, and his mother is
a widow and keeps a boarding-house.
First-class Scout Tom Scott, or Major Andrew Henry. He is our
corporal. He is sixteen years old, and has snapping black eyes, and his
father is mayor.
First-class Scout Harry Leonard, or Kit Carson. He is thirteen years old,
and before he came into the Scouts we called him "Sliver" because he's
so skinny. His father is a groceryman.
First-class Scout Chris Anderson, or