uation, not a repetition, in which I attempt
to answer the many questions which readers of the first volume have
persistently put to me.

"Did your mother get her new daughter?" "How long did she live to enjoy
the peace of her Homestead?" "What became of David and Burton?" "Did
your father live to see his grandchildren?" These and many other
queries, literary as well as personal, are--I trust--satisfactorily
answered in this book. Like the sequel to a novel, it attempts to
account for its leading characters and to satisfy the persistent
interest which my correspondents have so cordially expressed.

It remains to say that the tale is as true as my memory will permit--it
is constructed only by leaving things out. If it reads, as some say,
like fiction, that result is due not to invention but to the actual
lives of the characters involved. Finally this closes my story of the
Garlands and McClintocks and the part they took in a marvelous era in
American settlement.

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CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER PAGE

I. MY FIRST WINTER IN CHICAGO 1

II. I RETURN TO THE SADDLE 13

III. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GENERAL GRANT 24

IV. RED MEN AND BUFFALO 38

V. THE TELEGRAPH TRAIL 53

VI. THE RETURN OF THE ARTIST 70

VII. LONDON AND EVENING DRESS 86

VIII. THE CHOICE OF THE NEW DAUGHTER 97

IX. A JUDICIAL WEDDING 122

X. THE NEW DAUGHTER AND THANKSGIVING 140

XI. MY FATHER'S INHERITANCE 153

XII. WE TOUR THE OKLAHOMA PRAIRIE 171

XIII. STANDING ROCK AND LAKE MCDONALD 184

XIV. THE EMPTY ROOM 204

BOOK II

XV. A SUMMER IN THE HIGH COUNTRY 219

XVI. THE WHITE HOUSE MUSICAL 237

XVII. SIGNS OF CHANGE 247

XVIII. THE OLD PIONEER TAKES THE BACK TRAIL 262

XIX. NEW LIFE IN THE OLD HOUSE