XIV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



VA.GZA 



A TRIAL BY JODGE LYNCH — HUNG FOB CONTEMPT OF COURT — QUAIL 

 SHOOTING — HABITS OF THE BIRDS, AND MODE OF KILLING THEM — A 

 RING OF QUAILS — THE EFFECTS OF A SEVERE WINTER — THE SNOW 

 GOOSE, 75-83 



CHAPTER VI. 



OFF FOB BUFFALO LAND — THE NAVIGATION OF THE KAW — FORT RILEY 



THE CENTER-POST OF THE UNITED STATES — OCR PURCHASE OF HORSES 

 "LO" AS A SAVAGE AND AS A CITIZEN — GRIPE UNFOLDS THE IN- 

 DIAN QUESTION A BALLAD BY SACHEM, PRESENTING ANOTHER VIEW, 84-98 



CHAPTER VII. 



GHIPE'S VIEWS OF INDIAN CHARACTER — THE DELA WARES, THE ISHMAELITES 



OF THE PLAINS THE TERRITORY OF THE "LONG HORNS " — TEXANS 



AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS — MUSHROOM ROCK — A VALUABLE DIS- 

 COVERY FOOTPRINTS IN THE ROCK — THE PRIMEVAL PAUL AND 



99-111 



CHAPTER VlII. 



THE " GREAT AMERICAN DESERT " — ITS FOSSIL WEALTH — AN ILLUSION DIS- 

 PELLED FIRES ACCORDING TO NOVELS AND ACCORDING TO FACT 



SENSATIONAL HEROES AND HEROINES PRAIRIE DOGS AND THEIR HAB- 

 IT? — HAWK AND DOG, AND HAWK AND CAT, 112-123 



CHAPTER IX. 



*"H SKE BUFFALO — ARRIVAL AT nAYS — GENERAL SHERIDAN AT THE FORT — 



INDIAN MURDERS — BLOOD-CHRISTENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD 



SURPRISED BY A BUFFALO HERD A BUFFALO BULL IN A QUANDARY 



GENTLE ZEPHYRS — HOW A CIRCUS WENT OFF — BOLOGNA TO LEAN ON — 



A CALL UPON SHERIDAN, 124-141 



