Seventy Years on the Frontier

About this eBook

Author

Majors, Alexander, 1814-1900

Title

Seventy years on the frontier

Credits

Produced by Greg Bergquist, Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

Subject

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42195

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42195

Release Date

February 25, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Seventy Years on the Frontier — DEDICATION.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.TO THE READER.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — REMINISCENCES OF YOUTH.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — MISSOURI IN ITS WILD AND UNCULTIVATED STATE.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — A SILVER EXPEDITION. — Footnote
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — THE MORMONS.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — THE MORMONS' MECCA.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — MY FIRST VENTURE.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — FAITHFUL FRIENDS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — OUR WAR WITH MEXICO.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — DONIPHAN'S EXPEDITION.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. — THE PIONEER OF FRONTIER TELEGRAPHY.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — AN OVERLAND OUTFIT.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — KIT CARSON.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. — ADVENTURES OF A TRAPPER.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. — TRAPPING.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. — AN ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. — CROSSING THE PLAINS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. — "THE JAYHAWKERS OF 1849."
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — MIRAGES.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. — THE FIRST STAGE INTO DENVER.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. — THE GOLD FEVER.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. — THE OVERLAND MAIL.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. — THE PONY EXPRESS AND ITS BRAVE RIDERS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE BATTLE OF THE BUFFALOES.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE BLACK BEAR.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. — THE BEAVER.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. — A BOY'S TRIP OVERLAND.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII. — THE DENVER OF EARLY DAYS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII. — THE DENVER OF TO-DAY AND ITS ENVIRONS.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX. — BUFFALO BILL FROM BOYHOOD TO FAME.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXX. — THE PLATTE VALLEY.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI. — KANSAS CITY BEFORE THE WAR.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXII. — THE GRAVES OF PIONEERS.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIII. — SILVER MINING.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIV. — WILD WEST FRUITS.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXV. — HOW ENGLISH CAPITALISTS GOT A FOOTHOLD.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVI. — MONTANA'S TOWNS AND CITIES.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVII. — CALIFORNIA'S GREAT TREES.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — THE FLOWERS OF THE FAR WEST.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXIX. — COLORADO.
44. 44.CHAPTER XL. — THE SURGEON SCOUT.
45. 45.CONCLUSION. — A SUMMING UP OF THE HAPPENINGS THAT OCCURRED OR TRANSPIRED IN EVERY DECADE, COMMENCING WITH THE TWENTIES AND ENDING WITH NINETY.
46. 46.Transcriber's Notes

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