CONTENTS
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I The Scourge of the Border 9
II The Flight Through the Darkness 35
III Besieged in Fort Ridgely 54
IV Refugees 77
V Hope Deferred 95
VI On General Sully's Staff 119
VII Up the Missouri 130
VIII Prairie Marching 149
IX The Revenge of the Coyotes 167
X The Fort on the River 183
XI Trailing the Hostiles 207
XII The Battle of Tahkahokuty 224
XIII Beset in the Bad Lands 253
XIV Te-o-kun-ko 279
XV In the Wake of the Grasshoppers 302
XVI Adrift in a Barge 319
XVII Captured by Guerillas 345
XVIII The Defence of Glasgow 372
XIX Reunited 394