Track's End

About this eBook

Author

Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932

Title

Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full

Credits

E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Winter -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28873

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28873

Release Date

May 19, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — TRACK’S END
2. 2.CHAPTER I — Something about my Home and Track’s End: with how I leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the other.
3. 3.CHAPTER II — The rest of my second Night at Track’s End, and part of another: with some Things which happen between.
4. 4.CHAPTER III — A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go away from Track’s End and how some others come.
5. 5.CHAPTER IV — We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little Trip out to Bill Mountain’s House: after I come back I show what a great Fool I can be.
6. 6.CHAPTER V — Alone in Track’s End I repent of my hasty Action: with what I do at the Headquarters House, and the whole Situation in a Nutshell.
7. 7.CHAPTER VI — Some Account of what I do and think the first Day alone: with a Discovery by Kaiser at the End.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII — I have a Fight and a Fright: after which I make some Plans for the Future and take up my Bed and move.
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII — I begin my Letters to my Mother and start my Fortifications: then I very foolishly go away, meet with an Accident, and see Something which throws me into the utmost Terror.
10. 10.CHAPTER IX — More of a strange Christmas: I make Kaiser useful in an odd Way, together with what I see from under the Depot Platform.
11. 11.CHAPTER X — A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and think of Something which I don’t believe the Indians will like.
12. 12.CHAPTER XI — I give the savage Indians a great Scare, and then gather up my scattered Family at the end of a queer Christmas Day.
13. 13.CHAPTER XII — One of my Letters to my Mother, in which I tell of many Things and especially of a Mystery which greatly puzzles and alarms me.
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII — Some Talk at Breakfast, and various other Family Affairs: with Notes on the Weather, and a sight of Something to the Northwest.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV — I have an exciting Hunt and get some Game, which I bring Home with a vast deal of Labor, only to lose Part of it in a startling Manner: together with a Dream and an Awakening.
16. 16.CHAPTER XV — The mysterious Fire, and Something further about my wretched State of Terror: with an Account of my great System of Tunnels and famous Fire Stronghold.
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI — Telling of how Pike and his Gang come and of what Kaiser and I do to get ready for them: together with the Way we meet them.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII — The Fight, and not much else: except a little Happening at the End which startles me greatly.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII — After the Fight: also a true Account of the great Blizzard: with how I go to sleep in the Stronghold and am awakened before Morning.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX — I find out who my Visitor is: with Something about him, but with more about the Chinook which came out of the Northwest: together with what I do with the Powder, and how I again wake up suddenly.
21. 21.CHAPTER XX — What the Outlaws do on their second Visit: with the awful Hours I pass through, and how I find myself at the End.
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI — After the Explosion: some cheerful Talk with the Thieves, and a strange but welcome Message out of the Storm.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII — The last Chapter, but a good Deal in it: a free Lodging for the Night, with a little Speech by Mr. Clerkinwell: then, how Kaiser and I take a long Journey, and how we never go that Way again.

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