V. A CLOSE CALL VI. A MISHAP VII. JACK HALLOWAY VIII. GOOD SEED IX. A BATTLE ROYAL X. WHIRLWIND XI. PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT XII. A HURRIED FLIGHT XIII. A STARTLING AWAKENING XIV. SHOSHONE CALLERS XV. A QUESTION OF SKILL AND COURAGE XVI. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY XVII. IN THE MOUNTAINS XVIII. INDIAN CHIVALRY XIX. A CALAMITY XX. OLD FRIENDS XXI. PRESSING NORTHWARD XXII. A CHANGE OF PLAN XXIII. THE MONARCH OF THE SOLITUDES XXIV. A MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER XXV. THROUGH THE GREAT DIVIDE XXVI. PARTING COMPANY XXVII. DOWN THE COLUMBIA XXVIII. AT LAST ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILLUSTRATIONS ---------- FRONTISPIECE: DEERFOOT AND WHIRLWIND DANIEL BOONE AND DEERFOOT “HELLOA!” A BATTLE ROYAL THE ANGLO-SAXON EVERY TIME THE CRITICAL MOMENT A WESTERN MONARCH IN THE RAPIDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEERFOOT ON THE PRAIRIES. ------- CHAPTER I WESTWARD BOUND. ONE morning in early spring, at the beginning of the last century, a party of four persons left the frontier town of Woodvale, in southern Ohio, and started on their long journey across the continent. Do you need an introduction to the little company? Hardly, and yet it is well to recall them to mind. First of all was our old friend Deerfoot, the Shawanoe, to whom we bade good-bye at the close of the story “Deerfoot in the Forest,” with a hint of the important expedition upon which he had decided to enter with his companions. He was mounted on a tough, wiry pony that had been presented to him by his friend Simon Kenton, and which, in honor of the famous ranger, the new owner had named “Simon.”