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Mrs. Dalton. A Story of Minnesota. What the Hunters Saw. A Mother's
Deathless Love.

CHAPTER XIV.
ENCOUNTERS WITH WILD BEASTS--COURAGE AND DARING,
Personal Combat with a Bear. The Huntress of the Northwest. An
Intrepid Wife and her Assailant. Combat with an Enraged Moose. A
Bloody Circus in the Snow. Trapping Wolves--a Georgia Girl's Pluck.
A Kentucky Girl's Adventure. A Wild Pack in Pursuit. The Snapping of
a Black Wolf's Jaws. Female Strategy and its Success. A Cabin Full of
Wolves. Comical Denouement. A Young Lady Treed by a Bear. Some
of Mrs. Dagget's Exploits. Up the Platte, and After the Grizzlies.
Catching a Bear with a Lasso. What a Brave Woman Can Do. Facing
Death in the Desert. A Woman's Home in Wyoming. A Night with a
Mountain Lion.

CHAPTER XV.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.--ON THE PLAINS, Voyaging in a
Prairie Schooner. A Cavalry Officer's Story. The Homeless Wanderer
of the Plains. Mrs. N. Battling alone with Death. A Fatherless and
Childless Home. The Plagues of Egypt. Murrain, Grasshoppers, and
Famine. Following a Forlorn Hope. A Bridal Tour and its Ending. On
the Borders of the Great Desert. An Extraordinary Experience. Women
Living in Caves. A Waterspout and its Consequences. Drowning in a
Drought. Fleeing from Death. A Woman's Partnership in a Herd of
Buffaloes. The Huntress of the Foot-hills. A Charge by Ten Thousand
Bison. Hiding in a Sink-hole. A Terrible Danger and a Miraculous
Escape. A Prairie Home and its Mistress.

CHAPTER XVI.
WOMAN AS A MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS, The Heroine and
Martyr among the Heathen. Mrs. Eliot and her Tawny Protegés. Five
Thousand Praying Indians. Mrs. Kirkland among the Oneidas.
Prayer-meetings in Wigwams. The Psalm-singing Squaws. A
Revolutionary Matron and her Story. A Pioneer Sunday-school and its
Teacher. The Last of the Mohegans and their Benefactors. Heroism of
the Moravian Sisters. The Guardians of the Pennsylvania Frontier. A
Gathering Storm. Prayer-meetings and Massacres. Surrounded by
Flame and Carnage. An Unexpected Assault. The Fate of the Defenders.
A Fiery Martyrdom. Last Scene in a Noble Life. Closing Days of
Gnadenhutten. Massacre of Indian Converts. The Death Hymn and
Parting Prayer.

CHAPTER XVII.
WOMAN AS A MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS, (CONTINUED),
Missionary Wives Crossing the Rocky Mountains. Buried Alive in the
Snow. Shooting the Rapids in a Birch Canoe. Sucked Down by a
Whirlpool. A Fearful Situation and its Issue. A Brace of Heroines and
their Expedition. Women Doubling Cape Horn. A Parting Hymn and
Long Farewell. A Missionary Wife's Experience in Oregon. All Alone
with the Wolves. A Woman's Instinct in the Hour of Danger. Dr.
White's Dilemma and its Solution. A Clean Pair of Heels and a
Convenient Tree. A Perilous Voyage and its Consequences. A
Heartrending Catastrophe. A Mother's Lost Treasure. A Savage Coterie
and the White Stranger. Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Spalding. A
Murderous Suspicion. The Benefactress and the Martyr.

CHAPTER XVIII.
WOMAN IN THE ARMY, The Daughter of the Regiment. A Loving

Wife and a True Patriot. Mrs. Warner in the Canadian Campaign. The
Disguised Couriers. Deborah Samson in Buff and Blue. A Woman in
Love with a Woman. A Wound in Front and what it Led to. Mrs.
Coolidge's Campaign in New Mexico. Bearing Dispatches Across the
Plains. A Fight with Guerillas. A Race for Life. Two against Five.
Frontier Women in our Last Great War. Their Exploits and Devotion.
Miss Wellman as Soldier and Nurse. The Secret Revealed. A Noble
Life. A Devoted Wife. Life in a Confederate Fort. The Little Soldier
and her Story. A Sister's Love. The Last Sacrifice.

CHAPTER XIX.
ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, A Woman's Adventures on
the Platte River. On a False Trail, and What it Led To. Over a Precipice,
and Down a Thousand Feet. All Alone on the Face of the Mountain.
Mrs. Hinman's Extraordinary Situation. Swinging Between Heaven and
Earth. What a Loving Wife Will Do. Living or Dying Beside her
Husband. A Night on the Edge of a Precipice. Out of the Jaws of Death.
The Two Fugitive Women of the Chapparel. A Secret Too Dreadful to
be Told. The Specters of the Mountain Camp. Maternal Sacrifice and
Filial Love. The Cannibals of the Canon. The Insane Hunter and his
Victims. A Woman's Only Alternative. Female Endurance vs.
Male Courage. Mrs. Donner's Sublime Devotion. Dying at her Post of
Duty.

CHAPTER XX.
THE COMFORTER AND THE GUARDIAN, The Ruined Home and
its Heroine. The Angel of the Sierra Nevada. Mrs. Maurice and the
Dying Miners. The Music of a Woman's Word. The Young Gold
Hunter and his Nurse. Starving Camp in Idaho. The Song in the Ears of
the Dying. The Seven Miners and their Golden Gift. A Graveyard of
Pioneer Women. Mrs. R. and her Wounded Husband. The Guardian

Mother of the Island. The Female Navigator and the Pirate.