ON THE COMSTOCK (1860), _By J. Ross Browne_ 202 From “A Peep at Washoe” and “Washoe Revisited” ALDER GULCH (1863), _By Nathaniel P. Langford_ 231 From “Vigilante Days and Ways” CHEYENNES AND SIOUX (1867), _By General George A. Custer_ 245 From “My Life on the Plains” THE PONY EXPRESS, _By Mark Twain_ 268 From “Roughing It” SLADE, _By Mark Twain_ 270 From “Roughing It” GENERAL SHERIDAN HUNTS THE BUFFALO, _By De B. R. Keim_ 284 From “On the Border with Sheridan’s Troopers” AT TUCSON (1870), _By Capt. John G. Bourke_ 296 From “On the Border with Cook” TOLD AT TRINIDAD (1879), _By A. A. Hayes, Jr._ 310 From “New Colorado and the Santa Fé Trail” SPECIMEN JONES, _By Owen Wister_ 319 From “Red Men and White” THE LAND OF THE STRADDLE-BUG--DAKOTA (1883), _By Hamlin Garland_ 343 From “The Moccasin Ranch” OLD EPHRAIM THE GRIZZLY, _By Theodore Roosevelt_ 357 From “Hunting-Trips of a Ranchman” THE VANISHED SCENE, _By Hal G. Evarts_ 378 From “The Passing of the Old West” ILLUSTRATIONS DR. STEELE, PRESIDENT OF THE GULCH, ACTED AS JUDGE _Frontispiece_ ONCE MORE THE TRAIN FACED THE DESERT PAGE 115 MAN AND HORSE BURST PAST OUR EXCITED FACES, AND GO WINGING AWAY LIKE A BELATED FRAGMENT OF A STORM! “ 270 THE MILK-CANS CLASHED, AND JONES THOUGHT HE FELT THE BOY’S STROKES WEAKENING “ 339 THE PIONEER WEST THE UNBROKEN WILD LEWIS AND CLARK 1804 Reprinted from Lewis and Clark’s Journals. July 22, 1804.