ILLUSTRATIONS
TRACK’S END
CHAPTER I
Something about my Home and Track’s End: with how I leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the other.
CHAPTER II
The rest of my second Night at Track’s End, and part of another: with some Things which happen between.
CHAPTER III
A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go away from Track’s End and how some others come.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER VI
Some Account of what I do and think the first Day alone: with a Discovery by Kaiser at the End.
CHAPTER VII
I have a Fight and a Fright: after which I make some Plans for the Future and take up my Bed and move.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER IX
More of a strange Christmas: I make Kaiser useful in an odd Way, together with what I see from under the Depot Platform.
CHAPTER X
A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and think of Something which I don’t believe the Indians will like.
CHAPTER XI
I give the savage Indians a great Scare, and then gather up my scattered Family at the end of a queer Christmas Day.
CHAPTER XII
One of my Letters to my Mother, in which I tell of many Things and especially of a Mystery which greatly puzzles and alarms me.
CHAPTER XIII
Some Talk at Breakfast, and various other Family Affairs: with Notes on the Weather, and a sight of Something to the Northwest.
CHAPTER XIV
I have an exciting Hunt and get some Game, which I bring Home with a vast deal of Labor, only to lose Part of it in a startling Manner: together with a Dream and an Awakening.
CHAPTER XV
The mysterious Fire, and Something further about my wretched State of Terror: with an Account of my great System of Tunnels and famous Fire Stronghold.
CHAPTER XVI
Telling of how Pike and his Gang come and of what Kaiser and I do to get ready for them: together with the Way we meet them.
CHAPTER XVII
The Fight, and not much else: except a little Happening at the End which startles me greatly.
CHAPTER XVIII
After the Fight: also a true Account of the great Blizzard: with how I go to sleep in the Stronghold and am awakened before Morning.
CHAPTER XIX
I find out who my Visitor is: with Something about him, but with more about the Chinook which came out of the Northwest: together with what I do with the Powder, and how I again wake up suddenly.
CHAPTER XX
What the Outlaws do on their second Visit: with the awful Hours I pass through, and how I find myself at the End.
CHAPTER XXI
After the Explosion: some cheerful Talk with the Thieves, and a strange but welcome Message out of the Storm.
CHAPTER XXII
The last Chapter, but a good Deal in it: a free Lodging for the Night, with a little Speech by Mr. Clerkinwell: then, how Kaiser and I take a long Journey, and how we never go that Way again.