ALLEN--A Kentucky Cardinal. ALLEN--The Reign of Law. ATHERTON--Patience Sparhawk. CHILD--Jim Hands. CRAWFORD--The Heart of Rome. CRAWFORD--Fair Margaret: A Portrait. DAVIS--A Friend of Cæsar. DRUMMOND--The Justice of the King. ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN. GALE--Loves of Pelleas and Etarre. HERRICK--The Common Lot. LONDON--Adventure. LONDON--Burning Daylight. LOTI--Disenchanted. LUCAS--Mr. Ingleside. MASON--The Four Feathers. NORRIS--Mother. OXENHAM--The Long Road. PRYOR--The Colonel's Story. REMINGTON--Ermine of the Yellowstone. ROBERTS--Kings in Exile. ROBINS--The Convert. ROBINS--A Dark Lantern. WARD--David Grieve. WELLS--The Wheels of Chance. THE MACMILLAN JUVENILE LIBRARY ALTSHELER--The Horsemen of the Plains. BACON--While Caroline Was Growing. CARROLL--Alice's Adventures and Through the Looking Glass. DIX--A Little Captive Lad. GREENE--Pickett's Gap. LUCAS--Slow Coach. MABIE--Book of Christmas. MAJOR--The Bears of Blue River. MAJOR--Uncle Tom Andy Bill. NESBIT--The Railway Children. WHYTE--The Story Book Girls. WRIGHT--Dream Fox Story Book. WRIGHT--Aunt Jimmy's Will. [Illustration: JOHN ERMINE.] JOHN ERMINE OF THE YELLOWSTONE BY FREDERIC REMINGTON _ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR_ New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. 1913 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped November, 1902. Reprinted December, 1902; January, June, 1903; March, October, 1908; August, 1913. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. VIRGINIA CITY 1 II. WHITE WEASEL 12 III. THE COMING OF THE GREAT SPIRIT 23 IV. CROOKED-BEAR 37 V. THE WHITE MEDICINE 51 VI. JOHN ERMINE 65 VII. TRANSFORMATION 77 VIII. PLAYING A MAN'S PART 86 IX. IN CAMP 101 X. A BRUSH WITH THE SIOUX 115 XI. THE TRUTH OF THE EYES 134 XII. KATHERINE 137 XIII. PLAYING WITH FIRE 150 XIV. IN LOVE 167 XV. BRINGING IN THE WOLF 178 XVI. A HUNT 198 XVII. A PROPOSAL 217 XVIII. MAN TO MAN 229 XIX. FLIGHT 247 XX. THE END OF ALL THINGS 262 ILLUSTRATIONS