great pleasure in recounting them.

The delineation of the habits, characteristics, and barbarous customs of
the savages, who, for centuries, have roamed over those vast plains, is
the result of my personal observation among these, now fast vanishing,
Indian tribes.

If this narrative proves a sufficient inducement for you to follow "THE
TRAIL HUNTERS," to the end, a future volume to be entitled "CROSSING THE
QUICKSANDS, OR HAL AND NED ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE," will acquaint you with
some of the startling adventures befalling my young friends, after
reaching their homes in the far west.

Hoping to merit your hearty commendation, I have the honor to subscribe
myself, THE AUTHOR.


CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.

The Wild Mustangs.--Hal and Ned.--The Black and the Bay.--Manuel the
Herder.--The Mustang-breaker.--Life on a Stock Ranche.--A Sudden Start.--
On the Road.--The Lone Mule.--The Stampede.--Attacked by Comanches.

CHAPTER II.

Under the Wagons.--The Lost Stock.--Jerry Vance the Wagon-master.--His
Pluck is aroused.--We take the Trail.--The Comanche Camp.--A Surprise.--