Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains by William F. Drannan
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Treachery of Gen. Ross' Men in Killing Prisoners--Capture of the
Modoc Chief CHAPTER 38. Story of the Captured Braves--Why Captain Jack Deserted--Loathsome Condition of the Indian Stronghold--End of the War--Some Comments CHAPTER 39. An Interested Boy--Execution of the Modoc Leaders-- Newspaper Messengers--A Very Sudden Deputy Sheriff--A Bad Man Wound Up CHAPTER 40. In Society Some More--A Very Tight Place--Ten Pairs of Yankee Ears--Black Bess Shakes Herself at the Right Time--Solemn Compact. CHAPTER 41. We Locate a Small Band of Red Butchers and Send them to the Happy Hunting Grounds--Emigrants Mistake Us for Indians-- George Jones Wounded CHAPTER 42. "We Are All Surrounded"--A Bold Dash and a Bad Wound-- Mrs. Davis Shows Her Gratitude--Most of My Work Now Done on Crutches CHAPTER 43. Poor Jones Makes His Last Fight--He Died Among a Lot of the Devils He Had Slain--End of Thirty-one Years of Hunting, Trapping and Scouting CHAPTER 44. A Grizzley Hunts the Hunter--Shooting Seals in Alaskan Waters--I Become a Seattle Hotel Keeper and the Big Fire Closes Me Out--Some Rest--The Old Scout's Lament |
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