Chapter II

Scarcity of Food--An Incident--Looing and Bleating--Messrs.
Bents--Trade--Little Arkansas--A Nauseous Meal--A Flood--An
Onset--A Hard Ride--The Deliverance--The Arkansas--An
Attack--The Similitude of Death--The Feast and a bit of
Philosophy--The Traders Walworth and Alvarez's Teams--A
Fright--A Nation of Indians--Their Camp and Hunts--A Treaty--A
Tempest--Indian Butchering--A Hunt among the Buffalo--A
Wounded Man--A Drive--A Storm and its Enemy--Night among the
Buffalo--The Country and the Heavens--The Ford--A Mutiny
and its Consequences--Blistered Fingers--Liberty--Bent's
Fort--Disbanding 69

{xxii} CHAPTER III

The Great Prairie Wilderness--Its
Rivers and Soil--Its People and their
Territories--Choctaws--Chickasaws--Cherokees--Creeks--Senecas
and
Shawnees--Seminoles--Pottawatamies--Weas--Pionkashas--Peorias
and Kaskaskias--Ottowas--Shawnees or
Shawanoes--Delawares--Kausaus--Kickapoos--Sauks
and Foxes--Iowas--Otoes--Omehas--Puncahs--Pawnees,
remnants--Carankauas--Cumanche,
remnants--Knistineaux--Naudowisses or Sioux--Chippeways, and
their traditions 108

CHAPTER IV

Fort William--its Structure, Owners, People, Animals, Business,
Adventures, and Hazards--A Division--A March--Fort el
Puebla--Trappers and Whisky--A Genius--An Adventurous
Iroquois--A Kentuckian--Horses and Servant--A Trade--A
Start--Arkansas and Country--Wolfano Mountains--Creeks--Rio
Wolfano--A Plague of Egypt--Cordilleras--James' Peak--Pike's
Peak--A Bath--The Prison of the Arkansas--Entrance of the Rocky
Mountains--A Vale 161