x iv CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



PA'tES. 

 A TRIAL BY JUDGE LYNCH HUNG FOR 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, ...i 75-83 



CHAPTER VI. 



OFF FOR BUFFALO LAND THE NAVIGATION OF THE KAW FORT RILEY ' 



THE CENTER-POST OF THE UNITED STATES OUR PURCHASE OF HORSES 



"liO" AS A SAVAGE AND AS A CITIZEN GRIPE UNFOLDS THE IN- 

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



CHAPTER VII. 



GHIPK'S VIEWS OF INDIAN CHARACTER THE DELAWARES, 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 



VIRGINIA, 99-111 



CHAPTER VIII. 



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- 

 ITS HAWK AND DOG, AND HAWK AND CAT, . . . H2-123 



CHAPTER IX. 



X'E SEE BUFFALO ARRIVAL AT HAYS GENERAL SHERIDAN AT THE FORT 



INDIAN MURDERS BLOOD-CHRISTENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD 



SURPRISED BY A BUFFALO HERD A BUFFALO BULL IN A QUANDARY 



GKNTLE ZEPHYRS HOW A CIRCUS WENT OFF BOLOGNA TO LEAN ON 



A CALL UPON SHERIDAN, 124-141 



