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Title: Chiquita, an American Novel
The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter

Author: Merrill Tileston

Release Date: June 30, 2010 [EBook #33030]

Language: English

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CHIQUITA

[Illustration: CHIQUITA]

CHIQUITA

AN AMERICAN NOVEL

The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter

BY

MERRILL TILESTON

PUBLISHED BY
THE MERRILL COMPANY
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
MCMII.

Copyright 1902 by
H. M. Tileston
Chicago, U. S. A.
All rights reserved

CONTENTS.

Page

CHAPTER I. A Bozrah Bornin', 7

CHAPTER II. On the Firing Line of Civilization, 33

CHAPTER III. Cats, Traps and Indians, 50

CHAPTER IV. Old Joe Riggs, 71

CHAPTER V. The Camp in the Willows, 82

CHAPTER VI. The Ranch on the Troublesome, 110

CHAPTER VII. Chiquita Wooed by Antelope, 124

CHAPTER VIII. A Glimpse of Home, 134

CHAPTER IX. Ute Big Warrior--No Plow, 143

CHAPTER X. The Blazing Eye Mine, 171

CHAPTER XI. College Vacations, 180

CHAPTER XII. Jack Wedded, 192

CHAPTER XIII. Estes Park, 212

CHAPTER XIV. Chiquita Graduates, 256

CHAPTER XV. A Hospital and A Boarding House, 263

CHAPTER XVI. Galling Yokes of Civilization, 274

CHAPTER XVII. Whence Come My People? 293

ILLUSTRATIONS.

FRONTISPIECE, "Chiquita"

YAMANATZ, 52

THE CAMP IN THE WILLOWS, 103

ANTELOPE--THE WARRIOR, 1877, 132

ANTELOPE--THE CIVILIAN, 1902, 168

THE "KEYHOLE"--LONG'S PEAK,