CONTENTS
CHAPTER I -- THE FRONTIER
CHAPTER II -- BREAKING THE ICE
CHAPTER III -- FORT LEAVENWORTH
CHAPTER IV -- “JUMPING OFF”
CHAPTER V -- “THE BIG BLUE”
CHAPTER VI -- THE PLATTE AND THE DESERT
CHAPTER VII -- THE BUFFALO
CHAPTER VIII -- TAKING FRENCH LEAVE
CHAPTER IX -- SCENES AT FORT LARAMIE
CHAPTER X -- THE WAR PARTIES
CHAPTER XI -- SCENES AT THE CAMP
CHAPTER XII -- ILL LUCK
CHAPTER XIII -- HUNTING INDIANS
CHAPTER XIV -- THE OGALLALLA VILLAGE
CHAPTER XV -- THE HUNTING CAMP
CHAPTER XVI -- THE TRAPPERS
CHAPTER XVII -- THE BLACK HILLS
CHAPTER XVIII -- A MOUNTAIN HUNT
CHAPTER XIX -- PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER XX -- THE LONELY JOURNEY
CHAPTER XXI -- THE PUEBLO AND BENT’S FORT
CHAPTER XXII -- TETE ROUGE, THE VOLUNTEER
CHAPTER XXIII -- INDIAN ALARMS
CHAPTER XXIV -- THE CHASE
CHAPTER XXV -- THE BUFFALO CAMP
CHAPTER XXVI DOWN THE ARKANSAS
CHAPTER XXVII -- THE SETTLEMENTS
Last spring, 1846, was a busy season in the City of St. Louis. Not only were emigrants from every part of the country preparing for the journey to Oregon and California, but an unusual number of traders were making ready their wagons and outfits for Santa Fe. Many of the emigrants, especially of those bound for California, were persons of wealth and standing. The hotels were crowded, and the gunsmiths and saddlers were kept constantly at work in providing arms and equipments for the different parties of travelers. Almost every day steamboats were leaving the levee and passing up the Missouri, crowded with passengers on their way to the frontier.
In one of these, the Radnor, since snagged and lost, my friend and relative, Quincy A. Shaw, and myself, left St. Louis on the 28th of April, on a tour of curiosity and amusement to the Rocky Mountains. The boat was loaded until the water broke alternately over her gu