The Awakening of the Desert
by Julius Charles Birge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Birge, Julius Charles, 1839-1923
- Credits
- Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, 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
- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41333
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41333
- Release Date
- November 9, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT
- 2.JULIUS C. BIRGE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT
- 6.THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT
- 7.CHAPTER I A Call to the Wilderness
- 8.CHAPTER II " Roll Out "
- 9.CHAPTER III The Advancing Wave of Civilization
- 10.CHAPTER IV A River Town of the Day
- 11.CHAPTER V Our Introduction to the Great Plains
- 12.CHAPTER VI The Oregon Trail
- 13.CHAPTER VII Society in the Wilderness
- 14.CHAPTER VIII Jack Morrow's Ranch
- 15.CHAPTER IX Men of the Western Twilight
- 16.CHAPTER X Dan, The Doctor
- 17.CHAPTER XI Fording the Platte in High Water
- 18.CHAPTER XII The Phantom Liar of Grease Wood Desert
- 19.CHAPTER XIII The Mystery of Scott's Bluffs
- 20.CHAPTER XIV The Peace Pipe at Laramie
- 21.CHAPTER XV Red Cloud on the War Path
- 22.CHAPTER XVI The Mormon Trail
- 23.CHAPTER XVII Wild Midnight Revelry in the Caspar Hills
- 24.CHAPTER XVIII A Night at Red Buttes
- 25.CHAPTER XIX Camp Fire Yarns at Three Crossings
- 26.CHAPTER XX A Spectacular Buffalo Chase
- 27.CHAPTER XXI The Parting of the Ways
- 28.CHAPTER XXII The Banditti of Ham's Fork
- 29.CHAPTER XXIII Through the Wasatch Mountains
- 30.CHAPTER XXIV Why a Fair City Arose in a Desert
- 31.CHAPTER XXV Some Inside Glimpses of Mormon Affairs
- 32.CHAPTER XXVI Mormon Homes and Social Life
- 33.CHAPTER XXVII The Boarding House Train
- 34.CHAPTER XXVIII Some Episodes In Stock Hunting
- 35.CHAPTER XXIX Adventures Of An Amateur Detective
- 36.CHAPTER XXX The Overland Stage Line
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