e the Era of Canned Good
and Kodaks. Morning Routine. Typical Bivouac.
Sociability Entrained. The Flooded Camp. Hope Sustains
Patience 76

CHAPTER VII. Tangled by a Tornado. Lost the Pace but Kept the
Cow. Human Oddities. Night Guards. Wolf Serenades.
Awe of the Wilderness. A Stampede 97

CHAPTER VIII. Disaster Overtakes the Wood Family 116

CHAPTER IX. Mysterious Visitors. Extra Sentinels. An Anxious
Night 123

CHAPTER X. Challenge to Battle 133

CHAPTER XI. Sagebrush Justice 144

CHAPTER XII. Night Travel. Arid Wastes to Limpid Waters 160

CHAPTER XIII. Into the Settlements. Halt 170

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"They started flight" Frontispiece

"Fording the Platte consumed one entire day" 11

"Wo-haw-Buck" 14

"From our coign of vantage we continued to shoot" 21

Chimney Rock 22

"One melody that he sang from the heart" 27

"Hauled the delinquent out" 30

"The wagons were lowered through the crevice" 38

Bone-writing 57

"With hand upraised in supplication, yielded to the impulse
to flee" 67

Jerry Bush, 1914 72

Nancy Holloway, 1857 74

The Author, twenty years after 100

A Coyote Serenade 109

"Van Diveer's advantage was slight but sufficient" 136

"A sip from the barrel cost fifty cents" 146

"'Stop,' shouted the Judge" 156

"'Melican man dig gold" 173

Pack-mule route to placer diggings 17