CONTENTS. XVI 1 



PAQES. 

 NAL GRAPE-SHOT — NATDKE'S BOMB-SHELLS — CRAWLING BEDOUINS — 



"THAR THEY HUMP" THE SLAUGHTER BEGUN — AN INEFFECTUAL 



CHARGE "KETCHING THE CRITTER " — RETURN TO CAMP CALVEs' 



HEAD ON THE STOMACH AN UNPLEASANT EPISODE WOLF BAITING, / 



AND HOW IT IS DONE, 280-291 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE CAYOTES' STRYCHNINE FEAST CAPTURING A TIMBER WOLF A FEW 



CORDS OF VICTIMS WHAT THE LAW CONSIDERS "INDIAN TAN " 



"finishing" THE NEW YORK MARKET A NEW YORK FARMER'S 



-""^ OPINION OF OUR GRAY WOLF — WESTWARD ASAIN EPISODES IN OUR 



JOURNEY — THE WILD HUNTRESS OF THE PLAINS — WAS OUR GUIDE A 



MURDERER? THE READER JOINS US IN A BUFFALO CHASE THE 



DYING AGONIES, 292-305 



CHAPTER XXI. 



J'CREASING" WILD HORSES MUGG3 DISAPPOINTED A FEAT FOR FIC- 

 TION — HORSE AND MONKEY HOOF WISDOM FOR TURFMEN PROS- 

 PECTIVE CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE PLAINS THE QUESTION OF 



SPONTANEOUS GENERATION — WANTON SLAUGHTER OF BUFFALO — 

 AMOUNT OP ROBES AND MEAT ANNUALLY WASTED — A STRANGE 



HABIT OF THE BISON NUMEROUS BILLS THE "SNEAK THIEF " OF '''^ 



THE PLAINS, 306-317 



CHAPTER XXII. 



A LIVE TOWN AND ITS GRAVE-YARD — HONEST ROMBEAUX IN TROUBLE 



JUDGE LYlTpH HOLDS COURT MARIE AND THE VINE-COVERED COT- 

 TAGE THE TERRIBLE FLOODS — DEATH IN CAMP AND IN THE DUG- 

 OUT WAS IT THE WATER WHICH DID IT? DISCOVERY OF A HUGE 



FOSSIL THE MOSASAURUS OF THE CRETACEOUS SEA A GLIMPSE 



OF THE REPTILIAN AGE REMINISCENCES OF ALLIGATOR-SHOOTING 



THEY SUGGEST A THEORY, 318-329 



