The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert

The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert
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Gustave Aimard. The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert

CHAPTER I. THE CACHE

CHAPTER II. THE AMBUSCADE

CHAPTER III. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF THE READER

CHAPTER IV. RED CEDAR AT BAY

CHAPTER V. THE GROTTO

CHAPTER VI. THE PROPOSITION

CHAPTER VII. ELLEN AND DOÑA CLARA

CHAPTER VIII. THE FLIGHT

CHAPTER IX. THE TEOCALI

CHAPTER X. THE WHITE GAZELLE

CHAPTER XI. THE APACHES

CHAPTER XII. BLACK CAT

CHAPTER XIII. THE GREAT MEDICINE

CHAPTER XIV. THE SUCCOUR

CHAPTER XV. ON THE ISLAND

CHAPTER XVI. SUNBEAM

CHAPTER XVII. INDIAN HOSPITALITY

CHAPTER XVIII. LOVE!

CHAPTER XIX. THE DANCE OF THE OLD DOGS

CHAPTER XX. A HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT

CHAPTER XXI. THE AVENGER

CHAPTER XXII. EXPLANATORY

CHAPTER XXIII. APACHES AND COMANCHES

CHAPTER XXIV. THE SCALP-DANCE

CHAPTER XXV. THE TORTURE

CHAPTER XXVI. TWO WOMEN'S HEARTS

CHAPTER XXVII. SHAW

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DEPARTURE

CHAPTER XXIX. THE AMBUSCADE

CHAPTER XXX. THE PIRATE'S CONFESSION

CHAPTER XXXI. THE RIVALS

CHAPTER XXXII. FRAY AMBROSIO

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE TRAIL

CHAPTER XXXIV. THE HUNT

CHAPTER XXXV. THE COMBAT

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE EARTHQUAKE

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Two months have elapsed since we left the Trail-Hunter commencing his adventurous journey, and we are in the heart of the desert. Before us immensity is unfolded. What pen, however eloquent, would venture to describe those illimitable oceans of verdure to which the North Americans have in their imagery, given the poetic and mysterious name of the Far West? That is to say, the truly unknown region, with its scenes at once grand and striking, soft and terrible; unbounded prairies in which may be found that rich and luxuriant Flora, against whose magic growth only the Indian can successfully struggle.

These plains, at the first glance, offer the dazzled eye of the rash traveller who ventures on them a vast carpet of verdure embossed with flowers, furrowed by large streams; and they appear of a desperate regularity, mingling in the horizon with the azure of the sky.

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It is effected in the following way.

They begin by spreading blankets and buffalo skins round the spot where they intend making the cache: then they remove large sods of grass, square, round, or oval, and dig out the soil, being careful to lay it on the blankets or skins. When the hole is deep enough, the sides are lined with buffalo hides, for fear of damp, and the articles are laid in it: the soil is then put in again, and the grass laid over it, which is watered to make it grow, and the rest of the earth is carried to the river, into which every particle is thrown, in order to hide any trace of the cache, which is so closely concealed, that a man must have an extraordinary skilful eye to discover one, and he often only finds old caches which have been ransacked and have nothing left in them.

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