CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



PREFACE ............ vii 



CHAPTER I. 



Opinion versus Experience Seeking Advice " Jack " Our Outfit 

 The Stove Captain John Connor His Views regarding Wives 

 The Start The Grand Prairie Coffee and how to make it- 

 Camping out .......... 1 



OHAPTEK II. 



An unwelcome Visitor and a warm Reception St. Mary's Mission A 

 genial old Soul Chicken White Soup The Big Blue We seek 

 Advice again Very contradictory A System of Rejections The 

 last Settlement 11 



CHAPTEE III. 



The Republican river Valley Bluffs and their Formation " Buffaloes 

 at Last ! " Our nightly Concert Buffalo Wolves Camp Gibraltar 

 Getting in Play Disappointed Whisky-poker A mysterious 

 Noise The Herd Danger A Fire Safe 19 



CHAPTEE IV. 



Tightening Girths The upland Plain "The Cattle upon a thousand 

 Hills "Stalking A Rogue Bull The Chase Missed The Boys 

 pot a Buffalo A Post-mortem Antelope Beaver . . .29 



CHAPTEE V. 



Lost Where is the Camp ? We tighten our Waistbelts Wet, cold, 

 hungry, and forlorn A Cropper Which River ? A Light The 

 Recall Safe Jerking Meat ....... 38 



