The different Routes to California and Oregon. Their respective Advantages. Organization of Companies.
Elections of Captains. Wagons and Teams. Relative Merits of Mules and Oxen. Stores and Provisions. How
packed. Desiccated and canned Vegetables. Pemmican. Antiscorbutics. Cold Flour. Substitutes in case of
Necessity. Amount of Supplies. Clothing. Camp Equipage. Arms.
CHAPTER II.
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Marching. Treatment of Animals. Water. Different methods of finding and purifying it. Journadas. Methods of
crossing them. Advance and Rear Guards. Selection of Camp. Sanitary Considerations. Dr. Jackson's Report.
Picket Guards. Stampedes. How to prevent them. Corraling Wagons.
CHAPTER III.
Page 71
Repairing broken Wagons. Fording Rivers. Quicksand. Wagon Boats. Bull Boats. Crossing Packs. Swimming
Animals. Marching with loose Horses. Herding Mules. Best Methods of Marching. Herding and guarding
Animals. Descending Mountains. Storms. Northers.
CHAPTER IV.
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Packing. Saddles. Mexican Method. Madrina, or Bell-mare. Attachment of the Mule illustrated. Best Method
of Packing. Hoppling Animals. Selecting Horses and Mules. Grama and bunch Grass. European Saddles.
California Saddle. Saddle Wounds. Alkali. Flies. Colic. Rattlesnake Bites. Cures for the Bite.
CHAPTER V.
Page 132
Bivouacs. Tente d'Abri. Gutta-percha Knapsack Tent. Comanche Lodge. Sibley Tent. Camp Furniture. Litters.
Rapid Traveling. Fuel. Making Fires. Fires on the Prairies. Jerking Meat. Making Lariats. Making Caches.
Disposition of Fire-arms. Colt's Revolvers. Gun Accidents. Trailing. Indian Sagacity.
CHAPTER VI.
Page 183
Guides and Hunters. Delawares and Shawnees. Khebirs. Black Beaver. Anecdotes. Domestic Troubles.
Lodges. Similarity of Prairie Tribes to the Arabs. Method of making War. Tracking and pursuing Indians.
Method of attacking them. Telegraphing by Smokes.
CHAPTER VII.
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Hunting. Its Benefits to the Soldier. Buffalo. Deer. Antelope. Bear. Big-horn, or Mountain Sheep. Their
Habits, and Hints upon the best Methods of hunting them.
Itineraries.
Page 253
Appendix.
Page 335
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Prairie Traveler, by Randolph B. Marcy
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court ofthe Southern District of New York.
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