[Illustration: A BUCKING BRONCHO] THE WEST FROM A CAR-WINDOW BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS AUTHOR OF “VAN BIBBER AND OTHERS” ETC. ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1903 Copyright, 1892, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ TO M. K. J. OF THE SEVENTH INFANTRY [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI 3 OUR TROOPS ON THE BORDER 27 AT A NEW MINING CAMP 59 A THREE-YEAR-OLD CITY 93 RANCH LIFE IN TEXAS 121 ON AN INDIAN RESERVATION 151 A CIVILIAN AT AN ARMY POST 185 THE HEART OF THE GREAT DIVIDE 215 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE _A Bucking Broncho_ Frontispiece _Head-piece_ 3 _Rangers in Camp_ 9 “_Remember the Alamo!_” 19 _Trumpeter Tyler_ 29 _Captain Francis H. Hardie, G Troop, Third United States Cavalry_ 37 _Water_ 43 _The Mexican Guide_ 49 _Third Cavalry Troopers--Searching a Suspected Revolutionist_ 53 _Mining Camp on the Range Above Creede_ 60 _Creede_ 63 _How Land is Claimed for Building--Planks Nailed Together and Resting on Four Stumps_ 66 _The “Holy Moses” Mine_ 69 _Debatable Ground--A Warning to Trespassers_ 73 _A Mining Camp Court-house_ 75 _Shaft of a Mine_ 79 _Valuable Real Estate_ 83 _Upper Creede_ 87 _Oklahoma City on the Day of the Opening_ 94 _Five Days After the Opening_ 97 _Four Weeks After the Opening_ 101 _Captain D. F. Stiles_ 105 _Post-office, April 22, 1889_ 108 _Post-office, July 4, 1890_ 111 _Oklahoma City To-day--Main Broadway_ 115 _The Ranch-house on the King Ranch, the Largest Range Owned by One Individual in the United States_ 123 _A Shattered Idol_ 127