The first edition of this book is dated 1851. The edition used is dated 1910. The publisher was Collins Cleartype Press, London and Glasgow. The number of pages is 308.

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General information

This is very much in the cowboys and Indians genre, and there can be no doubt that the author knew exactly what he was writing about, and had lived through similar experiences.

It was quite a hard book to transcribe, though the copy used was nice and clean, because of the very large number of Mexican-Spanish words and phrases. There was also a great deal of speech by people whose grammar and words were supposed to indicate a lower education. Hence it was not at all easy to present the book as the author would have liked, but we think that at last we have got it just about right.

On writing this book Reid had the general public in mind. It was one of his first. It was not until later that he adopted a more peaceful style and wrote for a boy readership, saying that in those books there was not a single passage that a boy could not read aloud to his mother or his sister. This book falls just outside that scope.

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Contents

Chapter I.
The Wild West.

Chapter II.
The Prairie Merchants.

Chapter III.
The Prairie Fever.

Chapter IV.
A Ride upon a Buffalo Bull.

Chapter V.
In a Bad Fix.

Chapter VI.
Santa Fé.

Chapter VII.
The Fandango.

Chapter VIII.
Seguin the Scalp-Hunter.

Chapter IX.
Left Behind.

Chapter X.
The Del Norte.

Chapter XI.
The “Journey of Death.“

Chapter XII.
Zoe.

Chapter XIII.
Seguin.

Chapter XIV.
Love.

Chapter XV.
Light and Shade.

Chapter XVI.
An Autobiography.

Chapter XVII.
Up the Del Norte.

Chapter XVIII.
Geography and Geology.

Chapter XIX.
The Scalp-Hunters.

Chapter XX.
Sharp-Shooting.

Chapter XXI.
A Feat à la Tell.

Chapter XXII.
A Feat à la Tail.

Chapter XXIII.
The Programme.

Chapter XXIV.
El Sol and La Luna.

Chapter XXV.
The War-Trail.

Chapter XXVI.
Three Days in the Trap.

Chapter XXVII.
The Diggers.

Chapter XXVIII.
Dacoma.

Chapter XXIX.
A Dinner with Two Dishes.

Chapter XXX.
Blinding the Pursuer.

Chapter XXXI.
A Buffalo “Surround.“

Chapter XXXII.
Another “Coup.“

Chapter XXXIII.
A Bitter Trap.

Chapter XXXIV.
The Phantom City.

Chapter XXXV.
The Mountain of Gold.

Chapter XXXVI.
Navajoa.

Chapter XXXVII.
The Night Ambuscade.

Chapter XXXVIII.
Adèle.

Chapter XXXIX.
The White Scalp.

Chapter XL.
The Fight in the Pass.

Chapter XLI.
The Barranca.

Chapter XLII.
The Foe.

Chapter XLIII.
New Misery.

Chapter XLIV.
The Flag of Truce.

Chapter XLV.
A Vexed Treaty.

Chapter XLVI.
A Conflict with Closed Doors.

Chapter XLVII.
A Queer Encounter in a Cave.

Chapter XLVIII.
Smoked Out.

Chapter XLIX.
A Novel Mode of Equitation.

Chapter L.
A Fast Dye.

Chapter LI.
Astonishing the Natives.

Chapter LII.
Running Amuck.

Chapter LIII.
A Conflict upon a Cliff.

Chapter LIV.
An Unexpected Rencontre.

Chapter LV.
The Rescue.

Chapter LVI.
El Paso Del Norte.

Chapter LVII.
Touching the Chords of Memory.

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