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Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in FullCarruth, Hayden

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Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full

Name: Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full
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Carruth, Hayden

Adventure stories; Dakota Territory -- Fiction; Winter -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction

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TRACK'S END

Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As
Told by Himself and Edited

by

HAYDEN CARRUTH

Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the
Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now
First Printed in Full

Illustrated by Clifford Carleton

With a Correct Map of Track's End Drawn by the Author

[Illustration: KAISER AND I FIGHTING THE TIMBER-WOLVES
--see page 63]

Harper & Brothers
New York and London
M - C - M - X - I

Copyright, 1911. by Harper & Brothers

Printed in the United States of America

Published September, 1911

TO

E. L. G. C.

CONTENTS

 CHAPTER                                                          PAGE

      I. Something about my Home and Track's End: with how I
         leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the
         other.                                                      1

     II. The rest of my second Night at Track's End, and part of
         another: with some Things which happen between.            12

    III. A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go
         away from Track's End and how some others come.            22

     IV. We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little
         Trip out to Bill Mountain's House: after I come back I
         show what a great Fool I can be.                           32

      V. Alone in Track's End I repent of my hasty Action: with
         what I do at the Headquarters House, and the whole
         Situation in a Nutshell.                                   43

     VI. Some Account of what I do and think the first Day
         alone: with a Discovery by Kaiser at the End.              52

    VII. I have a Fight and a Fright: after which I make some
         Plans for the Future and take up my Bed and move.          61

   VIII. I begin my Letters to my Mother and start my
         Fortifications: then I very foolishly go away, meet
         with an Accident, and see Something which throws me
         into the utmost Terror.                                    69

     IX. More of a strange Christmas: I make Kaiser useful in an
         odd Way, together with what I see from under the Depot
         Platform.                                                  79

      X. A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and
         think of Something which I don't believe the Indians
         will like.                                                 88

Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full

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