Chapter XIII: Into the Settlements. Halt 170

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"They started flight" Frontispiece

"Fording the Platte consumed one entire day" 11

"Wo-haw-Buck" 14

"From our coign of vantage we continued to shoot" 21

Chimney Rock 22

"One melody that he sang from the heart" 27

"Hauled the delinquent out" 30

"The wagons were lowered through the crevice" 38

Bone-writing 57

"With hand upraised in supplication, yielded to the impulse
to flee" 67

Jerry Bush, 1914 72

Nancy Holloway, 1857 74

The Author, twenty years after 100

A Coyote Serenade 109

"Van Diveer's advantage was slight but sufficient" 136

"A sip from the barrel cost fifty cents" 146

"'Stop,' shouted the Judge" 156

"'Melican man dig gold" 173

Pack-mule route to placer diggings 175