OUR LAST NIGHT TOGETHER--THE REMARKABLE SHED-TAIL DOG--HE RESCUES HIS MISTRESS, AND BREAKS UP A MEETING--A SKETCH OF TERRITORIAL TIMES BY GRIPE--MONTGOMERY'S EXPEDITION FOR THE RESCUE OF JOHN BROWN'S COMPANIONS--SCALPED, AND CARVING HIS OWN EPITAPH--AN IRISH JACOB--"SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"--SACHEM'S POETICAL LETTER--POPPING THE QUESTION ON THE RUN--THE PROFESSOR'S LETTER, 416-428 CONTENTS OF APPENDIX. PAGES. PRELIMINARY TO THE APPENDIX, 431, 432 CHAPTER FIRST. COME TO THE GREAT WEST--SHOULD THERE NOT BE COMPULSORY EMIGRATION--"GET A GOOD READY"--HOMESTEAD LAWS AND REGULATIONS--THE STATE OF KANSAS--THE COST OF A FARM--A FEW MORE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS, 433-450 CHAPTER SECOND. HUNTING THE BUFFALO--ANTELOPE HUNTING--ELK HUNTING--TURKEY HUNTING--GENERAL REMARKS--WHAT TO DO IF LOST ON THE PLAINS--THE NEW FIELD FOR SPORTSMEN, 451-463 CHAPTER THIRD. "BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES"--THE GREAT WEST--FALL OF THE RIVERS--THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS AND VALLEYS OF BUFFALO LAND--THE VALLEY OF THE PLATTE--THE SOLOMON AND SMOKY HILL RIVERS--THE ARKANSAS RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES--STOCK RAISING IN THE GREAT WEST--THE CATTLE HIVE OF NORTH AMERICA--THE CLIMATE OF THE PLAINS--CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE PLAINS--THE TREES AND FUTURE FORESTS OF THE PLAINS--THE SUPPLY OF FUEL--DISTRICTS CONTIGUOUS TO THE PLAINS--THE VALLEYS OF THE WHITE EARTH AND NIOBRARA--NEW MEXICO: ITS SOIL, CLIMATE, RESOURCES, ETC.--THE DISAPPEARING BISON--THE FISH WITH LEGS--THE MOUNTAIN SUPPLY OF LUMBER FOR THE PLAINS, 465-503 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. _From Original Drawings by Henry Worrall, and Actual Photographs._ _The Engraving by the Bureau of Illustration, Buffalo, N. Y._ PAGE FRONTISPIECE, FACING TITLE PAGE ALASKAN LOVERS--SEALING THE CONTRACT, 27 ALASKAN GAME OF OLD SLEDGE, 27 "WAUKARUSA," 33 "TOASTS HIS MOCCASINED FEET BY THE FIRE," 33 THE PROFESSOR--A REMARKABLE STONE, 39 TAMMANY SACHEM--PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE, 39 COLON AND SEMI-COLON, 43 DAVID PYTHAGORAS, M. D., 43 ONE OF THE MUGGSES, 47 SHAMUS DOBEEN--HIS CARD, 53 HON. T. GRIPE (BEATIFIED), 53