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Seventy Years on the Frontier

Seventy Years on the Frontier

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Seventy Years on the Frontier

ALEXANDER MAJORS' MEMOIRS
OF A
Lifetime on the Border

WITH A PREFACE BY
"BUFFALO BILL" (GENERAL W. F. CODY)

EDITED BY
COLONEL PRENTISS INGRAHAM

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers
1893


Copyright, 1893, by Rand, McNally & Co.
Seventy Years on the Frontier


DEDICATION.

AS A TRIBUTE OF MY SINCERE REGARD FOR W. F. CODY
AS BOY AND MAN, MY FRIEND FOR TWO SCORE YEARS,
I DEDICATE TO HIM
THIS BOOK OF BORDER LIFE.

Alexander Majors.



CONTENTS.

    PAGE.
  Preface, by Buffalo Bill 9
  Note to Reader 13
CHAPTER.
I. Reminiscences of Youth 15
II. Missouri in Its Wild and Uncultivated State       25
III. A Silver Expedition 32
IV. The Mormons 43
V. The Mormons' Mecca 63
VI. My First Venture 71
VII. Faithful Friends 78
VIII. Our War with Mexico 85
IX. Doniphan's Expedition 90
X. The Pioneer of Frontier Telegraphy 99
XI. An Overland Outfit 102
XII. Kit Carson 107
XIII. Adventures of a Trapper 119
XIV. Trapping 125
XV. An Adventure with Indians 128
XVI. Crossing the Plains 137
XVII. "The Jayhawkers of 1849" 150
XVIII. Mirages 157
XIX. The First Stage into Denver 164
XX. The Gold Fever 168
XXI. The Overland Mail 173
XXII. The Pony Express and Its Brave Riders 182
XXIII. The Battle of the Buffaloes

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