xii Contents. 



CHAPTER XX. 



IN COWBOY LAND. 



Development of archaic types of character — Cowboys and hunters — Rough vir- 

 tues and faults — Incidents — Hunting a horse-thief — Tale of the ending of a 

 desperado — Light-hearted way of regarding " broke horses" — Hardness of 

 the life — Deaths from many causes — Fight of Indians with trappers — The 

 slaying of the Medicine Chief Sword-Bearer — Mad feat and death of two 

 Cheyenne braves .......... 412-447 



CHAPTER XXI. 

 HUNTING LORE. 



Game which ought not to be killed — Killing black bear with a knife — Sports 

 with rod and shotgun — Snow-shoeing and mountaineering — American wri- 

 ters on out-door life — Burroughs — Thoreau — Audubon, Coues, etc. — Ameri- 

 can hunting books — American writers on life in the wilderness ; Parkman, 

 Irving — Cooper on pioneer life — American statesmen and soldiers devoted 

 to the chase — Lincoln, Jackson, Israel Putnam — A letter from Webster on 

 trout-fishing — Clay — Washington — Hunting Extracts from Washington's 

 diaries — Washington as a fox-hunter ....... 448-464 



Appendix 465-468 



Index 469-472 



