ILLUSTRATIONS
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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 Rock22
"One melody that he sang from the heart"27
"Hauled the delinquent out"30
"The wagons were lowered through the crevice"38
Bone-writing57
"With hand upraised in supplication, yielded to the impulse to flee"67
Jerry Bush, 191472
Nancy Holloway, 185774
The Author, twenty years after100
A Coyote Serenade109
"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 diggings175