THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT

JULIUS C. BIRGE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT

THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT

CHAPTER I A Call to the Wilderness

CHAPTER II "Roll Out"

CHAPTER III The Advancing Wave of Civilization

CHAPTER IV A River Town of the Day

CHAPTER V Our Introduction to the Great Plains

CHAPTER VI The Oregon Trail

CHAPTER VII Society in the Wilderness

CHAPTER VIII Jack Morrow's Ranch

CHAPTER IX Men of the Western Twilight

CHAPTER X Dan, The Doctor

CHAPTER XI Fording the Platte in High Water

CHAPTER XII The Phantom Liar of Grease Wood Desert

CHAPTER XIII The Mystery of Scott's Bluffs

CHAPTER XIV The Peace Pipe at Laramie

CHAPTER XV Red Cloud on the War Path

CHAPTER XVI The Mormon Trail

CHAPTER XVII Wild Midnight Revelry in the Caspar Hills

CHAPTER XVIII A Night at Red Buttes

CHAPTER XIX Camp Fire Yarns at Three Crossings

CHAPTER XX A Spectacular Buffalo Chase

CHAPTER XXI The Parting of the Ways

CHAPTER XXII The Banditti of Ham's Fork

CHAPTER XXIII Through the Wasatch Mountains

CHAPTER XXIV Why a Fair City Arose in a Desert

CHAPTER XXV Some Inside Glimpses of Mormon Affairs

CHAPTER XXVI Mormon Homes and Social Life

CHAPTER XXVII The Boarding House Train

CHAPTER XXVIII Some Episodes In Stock Hunting

CHAPTER XXIX Adventures Of An Amateur Detective

CHAPTER XXX The Overland Stage Line