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H. Ashley's Trapping
Expedition—Jim Beckwourth's Story—Two Axe—Kill Fourteen
Hundred Buffaloes—The Surround—Expedition is divided—Boats
are built— Green River Suck—Indians murder Le
Brache—Beckwourth meets Castenga.

CHAPTER IV.
CAPTAIN SUBLETTE'S EXPEDITION. Captain William Sublette's
Expedition in 1832—They meet Nathaniel J. Wyeth's Party— Arrive
at Green River Valley—Attacked by Indians—Antoine Godin shoots
a Blackfoot Chief—Fight between Whites, Flatheads, and
Blackfeet—An Indian Heroine—Major Stephen H. Long's Scientific
Expedition in 1820—Captain Bonneville's Expedition in 1832—
Lieutenant John C. Fremont's Expedition in 1842 to the Wind River
Mountains.

CHAPTER V.
TRADING-POSTS AND THEIR STORIES. Trading-posts of the
Great Fur Companies—Fort Vasquez—Fort Laramie—Fort
Platte—Fort Bridger—Incidents at Fort Platte—A Drunken
Spree—Death and Burial of Susu-Ceicha—Insult to Big
Eagle—Bull Tail's Effort to sell his Daughter for a Barrel of
Whiskey—A Rare Instance of a Trader's Honour.

CHAPTER VI.

THE MORMONS. The Most Desolate of Deserts made to blossom as
the Rose—The Mormon Hegira—Pilgrim's Outfit—Curious
Guide-posts—The Hand-cart Expedition—Sufferings and Hardships
during the Exodus—An Impending War—General Harney's
Expedition—Mormon Tactics—Destroy the Supplies—Privations of
the United States army —President backs down—Salt Lake
City—Brigham Young's Vision— The Temple.

CHAPTER VII.
MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE. Mountain Meadows
Massacre— Indians attack the Wagons—Lee offers
Protection—Ambushed by Lee— Lee flies to the
Mountains—Mormon Church acquitted—Execution of John D.
Lee—Temporary Toll-bridges—Indian Raids on Cattle Ranches—
Stuttering Brown—Graves along the Trail.

CHAPTER VIII.
THE PONY EXPRESS. The Problem of the Mails between Atlantic
and Pacific—The World-famed Pony Express—Necessity for it
—Its Originator—The Firm of Majors, Russell, & Waddell—The
Route— Organization—Its Paraphernalia—Daring Riders—J. G.
Kelley's Story— Colonel Cody's Story—Incidents and Stories—Old
Whipsaw and Little Cayuse, the Pawnee—Slade, the
Desperado—The Lynching of Slade— Establishment of the
Telegraph.

CHAPTER IX.
THE STAGE ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC. Discovery of Gold near
Pike's Peak—Exodus from Missouri—The Creation of the Overland
Stage Route to the Pacific Coast—Messrs. Russell and Jones'
Failure— Russell, Majors, & Waddell's Successful Establishment of a
New Line— Hockaday and Liggett's “One-horseâ€
Affair—Advent of the First Stage-coach into Denver—Financial
Embarrassment—Ben Holliday— Description of the Outfit of the

Route—Incidents and Adventures.

CHAPTER X.
SCENERY ON THE TRAIL. Scenery and Historical Localities on the
Route of the Old Trail—Loup Fork—De Smet's Account of a
Waterspout—Wood River—Brady's Island—Ash
Hollow—Johnson's Creek— Scott's Bluff—Independence Rock and
its Legend—Chimney Rock— Crazy Woman's Creek—Laramie
Plains—Legends and Traditions about the Great Salt Lake—Early
Surveys.

CHAPTER XI.
INDIAN TRIBES ON THE TRAIL. The Indian Tribes of the Salt Lake
Trail—The Otoes—I-e-tan—Blue-Eyes shot by I-e-tan— The
Pawnees—Their Tribal Mark—Legends and Traditions—Human
Sacrifices—Folk-lore.

CHAPTER XII.
SIOUX AND THEIR TRADITIONS. The Sioux Nation—Cause of
their Hatred for the Whites—A Chief of the Brûlé Sioux tells a
Story —The Scarred-Arms—Story of the Six Sioux and the
Mysterious Woman— The Place of the Death Song—Wa-shu-pa and
Ogallalla—Indian Fight at Ash Hollow—Indian Tradition of a Flood.

CHAPTER XIII.
THE CROWS. The Crows—Council at Fort Philip Kearny in July,
1866—A-ra-poo-ash—Jim Beckwourth in a Fight between Crows
and Blackfeet—Beckwourth and the Great Medicine Kettle—The
Missionary and the Crows—The Legend of the Blind Men—The
Pis-kun.

CHAPTER XIV.

FOLK-LORE OF BLACKFEET. Folk-lore of Blackfeet— The Lost
Children—The Wolf-Man—The Utes—Massacre of Major
Thornburgh's Command on the White River—The Great Chief
Ouray— Piutes—Their Theories of the Heavens—The Big Medicine
Springs— Closed Hand—Man afraid of his Horses—No
Knife—Sitting Bull— Spotted Tail.

CHAPTER XV.
SIOUX WAR OF 1863. Sioux War of 1863—Spotted Tail— George
P. Belden's Account—Sergeants Hiles and Rolla—Belden and
Nelson have an Adventure—Belden maps the Country—Guarding
Ben Holliday's Coaches—An Involuntary Highwayman—Capturing
Sioux at Gilman's Ranch—Morrow's Ranch—Bentz and
Wise—Attack on the Ambulance —Peace Commission—Massacre
of Colonel Fetterman's Command at Fort Phil Kearny.

CHAPTER XVI.
BUFFALO BILL'S ADVENTURES. Buffalo Bill's Adventures on the
Salt Lake Trail—In Charge of a Herd of Beef Cattle—Kills an
Indian—With Lew Simpson—Held up—Attacked at Cedar
Bluffs—A Brush with Sioux—The Print of a Woman's
Shoe—Capture a Village—Buffalo Bill shoots Tall Bull.

CHAPTER XVII.
MASSACRE OF CUSTER'S COMMAND. Buffalo Bill's Adventures
continued—Hunting at Fort McPherson—Indians steal his Favourite
Pony—The Chase—Scouting under General Duncan—Pawnee
Sentries—A Deserted Squaw—A Joke on McCarthy—Scouting for
Captain Meinhold—Texas Jack—Buckskin Joe—Sitting Bull and
the Indian War of 1876—Massacre of Custer and his
Command—Buffalo Bill takes the First Scalp for Custer—Yellow
Hand, Son of Cut Nose—Carries Despatches for Terry—Good-by to
the General.

CHAPTER XVIII.
IN A TRAPPER'S BIVOUAC. Around the Camp-fire in a Trapper's
Bivouac—Telling Stories of the Old Trail—Old Hatcher's Trip to the
Infernal Regions—Colonel Cody's Story of California Joe —A
Practical Joke.

CHAPTER XIX.
KIT CARSON ON THE YELLOWSTONE. More Stories of the Trail
—Frazier and the Bear—An Indian Elopement—The Ogallallas and
the Brûlés—Chaf-fa-ly-a—Kit Carson on the
Yellowstone—Battle with the Blackfeet—Carson, Bridger, and Baker
on the Platte—Jim Cockrell— Peg Leg Smith.

CHAPTER XX.
BUILDING THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. The Story of the
Building of the Union Pacific Railroad—Extract from General
Sherman's Memoirs—General Dodge's Description of the Country
when he first saw it—Explorations for a Route—Conference with
President Lincoln—