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| CHAPTER XXVIII. | ||
Disagreeable Rencounters in St Louis—Messenger arrives from Fort Cass—Imminent Peril of the Whites from the Infuriated Crows—The Cause—Immediate Return—Incidents of my Arrival—Pine Leaf substituted for Eliza —Last Battle with the Black Feet—Final Adieu to the Crows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER XXIX. | ||
Return to St. Louis—Interview with General Gaines—The Muleteers' Company—Departure for Florida—Wreck of the Maid of New York—Arrival at Fort Brooke—Tampa Bay—Bearer of Despatches to General Jessup—Battle of O-ke-cho-be—Anecdotes and Incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER XXX. | ||
Departure for the Mountains—Severe Sickness on the Way—Arrival at Bent's Fort—Arrival at Sublet's Fort—Interview with the Cheyennes—Difficulty with a Sioux Warrior—His Death—Successful Trade opened with various Tribes—Incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER XXXI. | ||
Invitation to visit the Outlaws—Interview with "the Elk that Calls"—Profitable Trade with the Outlaws—Return to the Post—Great Alarm among the Traders—Five Horses killed at the Fort—Flight from the Siouxs—Safe arrival at the Port—Trade with the Arrap-a-hos—Attacked by a Cheyenne Warrior—Peace restored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
362
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| CHAPTER XXXII. | ||
First Trip to New Mexico—Return to the Indians with Goods—Success in Trade—Enter into Business in St. Fernandez—Get Married—Return to the Indians—The fortunate Speculation—Proceed to California with Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER XXXIII. | ||
The Californian Revolution—Rifle Corps—Position of the two Armies—Colonel Sutter—Cannonade—Flight of Sutter—His Return—Trial and subsequent Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
385
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| CHAPTER XXXIV. | ||
Affairs at Santa Fé—Insurrection at Taos—Discovery of the Plot—Battle at the Cañon—Battles at Lambida, at Pueblo, and at Taos—A Mexican Woman redeemed from the Indians—Return to Santa Fé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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