Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains | Page 2

Time with a Train of Emigrants
CHAPTER 9.
Marriage of Kit Carson--The Wedding Feast--Providing Buffalo Meat, in the Original Package, for the Boarding-house at Bent's Fort
CHAPTER 10.
Robber Gamblers of San Francisco--Engaged by Col. Elliott as Indian Scout--Kills and Scalps Five Indians--Promoted to Chief Scout
CHAPTER 11.
A Lively Battle with Pah-Utes--Pinned to Saddle with an Arrow--Some Very Good Indians--Stuttering Captain--Beckwith Opens His Pass
CAAPTER 12--Col. Elliott Kills His First Deer, and Secures a Fine Pair of Horns as Present for His Father--Beckwith's Tavern-- Society
CHAPTER l3
--Something Worse than Fighting Indians Dance at Col. Elliott's--Conspicuous Suit of Buckskin I Manage to Get Back to Beckwith's
CHAPTER 14.
Drilling the Detailed Scouts---We Get Among the Utes-- Four Scouts Have Not Reported Yet--Another Lively Fight--Beckwith Makes a Raise
CHAPTER 15.
A Hunt on Petaluma Creek--Elk Fever Breaks Out--The Expedition to Klamath Lake--A Lively Brush with Modoc Indians
CHAPTER 16.
More Fish than I Had Ever Seen at One Time--We Surprise Some Indians, Who Also Surprise Us--The Camp at Klamath Lake--I Get Another Wound and a Lot of Horses
CHAPTER 17.
Discovery of Indians with Stolen Horses--We Kill the Indians and Return the Property to Its Owners--Meeting of Miners-- In Society Again
CHAPTER 18.
Trapping on the Gila--The Pimas Impart a Secret-- Rescue of a White Girl--A Young Indian Ages--Visit to Taos--Uncle Kit Fails to Recognize Me
CHAPTER 19.
A Warm Time in a Cold Country--A Band of Bannocks Chase Us Into a Storm that Saves Us--Kit Carson Slightly Wounded-- Beckwith Makes a Century Run
CHAPTER 20.
Carson Quits the Trail--Buffalo Robes for Ten Cents-- "Pike's Peak or Bust"--The New City of Denver--"Busted"--How the News Started
CHAPTER 21.
A Fight With the Sioux--Hasa, the Mexican Boy, Killed- -Mixed Up With Emigrants Some More--Four New Graves--Successful Trading With the Kiowas
CHAPTER 22.
A Trip to Fort Kearney--The General Endorses Us and We Pilot an Emigrant Train to California--Woman Who Thought I Was "no Gentleman"--A Camp Dance
CHAPTER 23.
Bridger and West Give Christmas a High Old Welcome in Sacramento--California Gulch--Meeting with Buffalo Bill--Thirty- three Scalps with One Knife
CHAPTER 24.
Face to Face with a Band of Apaches--The Death of Pinto--The Closest Call I Ever Had--A Night Escape--Back at Fort Douglas
CHAPTER 25.
Three Thousand Dead Indians--A Detective from Chicago- -He Goes Home with an Old Mormon's Youngest Wife and Gets into Trouble--The Flight
CHAPTER 26.
--Through to Bannock--A Dance of Peace Fright of the Negroes--A Freight Train Snowed in and a Trip on Snow-shoes--Some Very Tough Road Agents
CHAPTER 27.
Organization of a Vigilance Committe--End of the Notorious Slade--One Hundred Dollars for a "Crow-bait" Horse-- Flour a Dollar a Pound.
CHATER 28. Twenty-two Thousand Dollars in Gold Dust--A Stage Robbery--Another Trip to California Meeting with Gen Crook--Chief of Scouts
CHAPTER 29.
Find Some Murdered Emigrants--We Bury the Dead and Follow and Scalp the Indians--Gen. Crook Is Pleased with the Outcome--A Mojave Blanket
CHAPTER 30.
A Wicked Little Battle--Capture of One Hundred and Eighty-two Horses--Discovery of Black Canyon--Fort Yuma and the Paymaster
CHAPTER 31.
To California for Horses--My Beautiful Mare, Black Bess--We Get Sixty-six Scalps and Seventy-eight Horses--A Clean Sweep
CHAPTER 32.
Some Men Who Were Anxious for a Fight and Got It--Gen. Crook at Black Canyon--Bad Mistake of a Good Man--The Victims
CHAPTER 33.
The Massacre at Choke Cherry Canyon--Mike Maloney Gets Into a Muss--Rescue of White Girls--Mike Gets Even with the Apaches
CHAPTER 34.
Massacre of the Davis Family--A Hard Ride and Swift Retribution--A Pitiful Story--Burial of the Dead--I am Sick of the Business
CHAPTER 35.
Black Bess Becomes Popular in San Francisco--A Failure as Rancher--Buying Horses in Oregon--The Klamath Marsh--Captain Jack the Modoc
CHAPTER 36.
The Modoc War--Gen. Wheaton Is Held Off by the Indians--Gen. Canby Takes Command and Gets It Worse-Massacre of the Peace Commission
CHAPTER 37
-The Cry of a Babe--Capture of a Bevy of Squaws-- Treachery of Gen. Ross' Men in Killing Prisoners--Capture of the Modoc Chief
CHAPTER 38.
Story of the Captured Braves--Why Captain Jack Deserted--Loathsome Condition of the Indian Stronghold--End of the War--Some Comments
CHAPTER 39.
An Interested Boy--Execution of the Modoc Leaders-- Newspaper Messengers--A Very Sudden Deputy Sheriff--A Bad Man Wound Up
CHAPTER 40.
In Society Some More--A Very Tight Place--Ten Pairs of Yankee Ears--Black Bess Shakes Herself at the Right Time--Solemn Compact.
CHAPTER 41.
We Locate a Small Band of Red Butchers and Send them to the Happy Hunting Grounds--Emigrants Mistake Us for Indians-- George Jones Wounded
CHAPTER 42.
"We Are All Surrounded"--A Bold Dash and a Bad Wound-- Mrs. Davis Shows Her Gratitude--Most of My Work Now Done on Crutches
CHAPTER 43.
Poor Jones Makes His Last Fight--He Died Among a Lot of the Devils He Had Slain--End of Thirty-one Years of Hunting, Trapping and Scouting
CHAPTER 44.
A Grizzley Hunts the Hunter--Shooting Seals in Alaskan Waters--I Become a Seattle Hotel Keeper and the Big Fire Closes Me Out--Some Rest--The Old Scout's Lament
CHAPTER I.
A BOY ESCAPES A TYRANT AND PAYS A DEBT WITH A HORNET'S NEST--MEETS KIT CARSON AND BECOMES THE OWNER OF A PONY AND A GUN.
The old saying that truth is stranger than fiction is emphasized in the life of every man whose career has been one of adventure and danger in the pursuit of a livlihood. Knowing nothing