Chapter VI
Reading edition
HARD TIMES.
A Dreary Winter At Fort Bridger—Short Rations—Mule Steaks—Homeward Bound in the Spring—A Square Meal—Corraled by Indians—A Mule Barricade—We Hold the Fort—Home Again—Off for the West—Trapping on the Chugwater And Laramie Rivers—We go to Sleep In a Human Grave—A Horrifying Discovery—A Jollification at Oak Grove Ranch—Home Once More—I go to School—The Pike's Peak Gold Excitement—Down the Platte River on a Raft—I Become a Pony Express Rider.