THE YOUNG TRAIL HUNTERS;

OR, THE WILD RIDERS OF THE PLAINS.

THE VERITABLE ADVENTURES OF HAL HYDE AND NED BROWN, ON THEIR
JOURNEY ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE SOUTH-WEST.

BY

SAMUEL WOODWORTH COZZENS

1877






[Illustration: Prairie on Fire.]




TO THE READER.

From my youth up, no book ever fascinated me like one of travel and
adventure in Indian lands, where danger attends every step; and,
believing that the hair-breadth escapes of my young friends, Hal and Ned,
in crossing with me, the great plains of the South-West, a few years
since, will prove entertaining, as well as instructive, I have taken