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 . . . _. f - . , . . . . 465-468 

 INDEX .... 469-472 



