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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 |