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قراءة كتاب The Prairie Flower A Tale of the Indian Border
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THE PRAIRIE FLOWER
A TALE OF THE INDIAN BORDER
BY
GUSTAVE AIMARD,
AUTHOR OF
"THE INDIAN SCOUT," "TRAPPERS OF ARKANSAS," "TRAIL HUNTER,"
"GOLD SEEKERS," "BEE HUNTERS,"
ETC., ETC.
LONDON:
CHARLES HENRY CLARKE, 13 PATERNOSTER ROW,
1874
CONTENTS
I. | A HUNTING ENCAMPMENT | |
II. | A TRAIL DISCOVERED | |
III. | THE EMIGRANTS | |
IV. | THE GRIZZLY BEAR | |
V. | THE STRANGE WOMAN | |
VI. | THE DEFENCE OF THE CAMP | |
VII. | THE INDIAN CHIEF | |
VIII. | THE EXILE | |
IX. | THE MASSACRE | |
X. | THE GREAT COUNCIL | |
XI. | AMERICAN HOSPITALITY | |
XII. | THE SHE-WOLF OF THE PRAIRIE | |
XIII. | THE INDIAN VILLAGE | |
XIV. | THE RECEPTION | |
XV. | THE WHITE BUFFALO | |
XVI. | THE SPY | |
XVII. | FORT MACKENZIE | |
XVIII. | A MOTHER'S CONFESSION | |
XIX. | THE CHASE | |
XX. | INDIAN DIPLOMACY | |
XXI. | MOTHER AND DAUGHTER | |
XXII. | IVON | |
XXIII. | THE PLAN OF THIS CAMPAIGN | |
XXIV. | THE CAMP OF THE BLACKFEET | |
XXV. | BEFORE THE ATTACK | |
XXVI. | RED WOLF | |
XXVII. | THE ATTACK | |
XXVIII. | CONCLUSION |
CHAPTER I.
A HUNTING ENCAMPMENT.
America is the land of prodigies! Everything there assumes gigantic proportions, which startle the imagination and confound the reason. Mountains, rivers, lakes and streams, all are carved on a sublime pattern.
There is a river of North America—not like the Danube, Rhine, or Rhone, whose banks are covered with towns, plantations, and time-worn castles: whose