to the Platte Valley in 1807--Character of the Old Trapper--The Outfit
of his Men--Crosses the River--Immense Herds of Buffalo--Death of
their Favourite Hound--A Lost Trapper--A Prairie Burial--A Wolf-chase
after a Buffalo--An Indian Lochinvar--The Crow Indians--Their Country
--Rose, the Scapegoat Refugee--The Lost Trappers--A Battle with
the Savages.

CHAPTER III. JIM BECKWOURTH. General W. H. Ashley's Trapping
Expedition--Jim Beckwourth's Story--Two Axe--Kill Fourteen Hundred
Buffaloes--The Surround--Expedition is divided--Boats are built--
Green River Suck--Indians murder Le Brache--Beckwourth meets Castenga.

CHAPTER IV. CAPTAIN SUBLETTE'S EXPEDITION. Captain William
Sublette's Expedition in 1832--They meet Nathaniel J. Wyeth's Party--
Arrive at Green River Valley--Attacked by Indians--Antoine Godin
shoots a Blackfoot Chief--Fight between Whites, Flatheads, and
Blackfeet--An Indian Heroine--Major Stephen H. Long's Scientific
Expedition in 1820--Captain Bonneville's Expedition in 1832--
Lieutenant John C. Fremont's Expedition in 1842 to the Wind River
Mountains.

CHAPTER V. TRADING-POSTS AND THEIR STORIES. Trading-posts of the
Great Fur Companies--Fort Vasquez--Fort Laramie--Fort Platte--Fort
Bridger--Incidents at Fort Platte--A Drunken Spree--Death and Burial
of Susu-Ceicha--Insult to Big Eagle--Bull Tail's Effort to sell his
Daughter for a Barrel of Whiskey--A Rare Instance of a Trader's Honour.

CHAPTER VI. THE MORMONS. The Most Desolate of Deserts made to
blossom as the Rose--The Mormon Hegira--Pilgrim's Outfit--Curious
Guide-posts--The Hand-cart Expedition--Sufferings and Hardships during