XIX A Man's Business 292 XX The Cleft in the Rock 317 XXI The Call to Service 334 XXII The Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry 354 XXIII In Jean's Land 370 XXIV The Cry of Womanhood 390 XXV Judson Summoned 403 XXVI O'Mie's Inheritance 420 XXVII Sunset by the Sweetwater 442 XXVIII The Heritage 464 ILLUSTRATIONS Page "Come, Phil," she cried, "come, crown me Queen of May here in April!" _Frontispiece_ "Baronet, I think we are marching straight 158 into Hell's jaws" Every movement of ours had been watched by 244 Indian scouts Like the passing of a hurricane, horses, mules, 288 men, all dashed toward the place They came slowly toward us, the two captive 394 women for whom we waited PROEM "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her" I can hear it always--the Call of the Prairie. The passing of sixty Winters has left me a vigorous man, although my hair is as white as the January snowdrift in the draws, and the strenuous events of some of the years have put a tax on my strength. I shall always limp a little in my right foot--that was left out on the plains one freezing night with nothing under it but the earth, and nothing over it but the sky. Still, considering that although the sixty years were spent mainly in that pioneer time when every day in Kansas was its busy day, I am not even beginning to feel old. Neither am I sentimental and inclined to poetry. Life has given me mostly her prose selections for my study.