The Rifle Rangers
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Reid Mayne. The Rifle Rangers
Chapter One. The Land of Anahuac
Chapter Two. An Adventure among the Creoles of New Orleans
Chapter Three. A Volunteer Rendezvous
Chapter Four. Life on the Island of Lobos
Chapter Five. A Skeleton Adventure
Chapter Six. The Landing at Sacrificios
Chapter Seven. The City of the True Cross
Chapter Eight. Major Blossom
Chapter Nine. Scouting in the Chaparral
Chapter Ten. Adventure with a Cayman
Chapter Eleven. Don Cosmé Rosales
Chapter Twelve. A Mexican Dinner
Chapter Thirteen. A Subterranean Drawing-Room
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen. A Little Fair Weather again
Chapter Sixteen. The Scout continued, with a Variety of Reflections
Chapter Seventeen. One Way of Taming a Bull
Chapter Eighteen. A Brush with the Guerilleros
Chapter Nineteen. A Herculean Feat
Chapter Twenty. Running the Gauntlet
Chapter Twenty One. A Short Fight at “Long Shot”
Chapter Twenty Two. The Rescue
Chapter Twenty Three. The Cocuyo
Chapter Twenty Four. Lupé and Luz
Chapter Twenty Five. A Tough Night of it after all
Chapter Twenty Six. The Light after the Shade
Chapter Twenty Seven. A Disappointment and a New Plan
Chapter Twenty Eight. A Foolhardy Adventure
Chapter Twenty Nine. Help from Heaven
Chapter Thirty. A Shot in the Dark
Chapter Thirty One. Captured by Guerilleros
Chapter Thirty Two. A Blind Ride
Chapter Thirty Three. A Drink à la Cheval
Chapter Thirty Four. An odd Way of opening a Letter
Chapter Thirty Five. The Cobra-di-Capello
Chapter Thirty Six. The Head-Quarters of the Guerilla
Chapter Thirty Seven. Chane’s Courtship
Chapter Thirty Eight. The Dance of the Tagarota
Chapter Thirty Nine. A Kiss in the Dark
Chapter Forty. Maria de Merced
Chapter Forty One. The Pursuit
Chapter Forty Two. A New and Terrible Enemy
Chapter Forty Three. A Battle with Bloodhounds
Chapter Forty Four. An Indian Ruse
Chapter Forty Five. A Coup d’Éclair
Chapter Forty Six. A Bridge of Monkeys
Chapter Forty Seven. The Jarachos
Chapter Forty Eight. Padre Jarauta
Chapter Forty Nine. A Hang by the Heels
Chapter Fifty. A Very Short Trial
Chapter Fifty One. A Bird’s-eye View of a Battle
Chapter Fifty Two. An Odd Way of Escaping from a Battle-field
Chapter Fifty Three. A Wholesale Capture
Chapter Fifty Four. A Duel, with an odd Ending
Chapter Fifty Five. An Adios
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In the “fall” of 1846 I found myself in the city of New Orleans, filling up one of those pauses that occur between the chapters of an eventful life – doing nothing. I have said an eventful life. In the retrospect of ten years, I could not remember as many weeks spent in one place. I had traversed the continent from north to south, and crossed it from sea to sea. My foot had pressed the summits of the Andes, and climbed the Cordilleras of the Sierra Madre. I had steamed it down the Mississippi, and sculled it up the Orinoco. I had hunted buffaloes with the Pawnees of the Platte, and ostriches upon the pampas of the Plata: to-day, shivering in the hut of an Esquimaux – a month after, taking my siesta in an aery couch under the gossamer frondage of the corozo palm. I had eaten raw meat with the trappers of the Rocky Mountains, and roast monkey among the Mosquito Indians; and much more, which might weary the reader, and ought to have made the writer a wiser man. But, I fear, the spirit of adventure – its thirst – is within me slakeless. I had just returned from a “scurry” among the Comanches of Western Texas, and the idea of “settling down” was as far from my mind as ever.
“What next? what next?” thought I. “Ha! the war with Mexico.”
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Lincoln, brushing past, whispered in my ear, “Cap’n, I understan’ these hyur critters better’n you kin. Yer must mix among ’em – mix and licker – thet’s the idee.”
“Good advice,” said Clayley; “but if you could only take the shine out of that fellow at fencing, the thing’s done at once. By Jove! I think you might do it, Haller!”
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