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Title: The Young Trail Hunters

Author: Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

Release Date: January 23, 2004 [eBook #10810]

Language: English

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THE YOUNG TRAIL HUNTERS;

OR, THE WILD RIDERS OF THE PLAINS.

THE VERITABLE ADVENTURES OF HAL HYDE AND NED BROWN, ON THEIR
JOURNEY ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE SOUTH-WEST.

BY

SAMUEL WOODWORTH COZZENS

1877

[Illustration: Prairie on Fire.]

TO THE READER.

From my youth up, no book ever fascinated me like one of travel and
adventure in Indian lands, where danger attends every step; and,
believing that the hair-breadth escapes of my young friends, Hal and Ned,
in crossing with me, the great plains of the South-West, a few years
since, will prove entertaining, as well as instructive, I have taken
great pleasure in recounting them.

The delineation of the habits, characteristics, and barbarous customs of
the savages, who, for centuries, have roamed over those vast plains, is
the result of my personal observation among these, now fast vanishing,
Indian tribes.

If this narrative proves a sufficient inducement for you to follow "THE
TRAIL HUNTERS," to the end, a future volume to be entitled "CROSSING THE
QUICKSANDS, OR HAL AND NED ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE," will acquaint you with
some of the startling adventures befalling my young friends, after
reaching their homes in the far west.

Hoping to merit your hearty commendation, I have the honor to subscribe
myself, THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Wild Mustangs.--Hal and Ned.--The Black and the Bay.--Manuel the
Herder.--The Mustang-breaker.--Life on a Stock Ranche.--A Sudden Start.--
On the Road.--The Lone Mule.--The Stampede.--Attacked by Comanches.

CHAPTER II.

Under the Wagons.--The Lost Stock.--Jerry Vance the Wagon-master.--His
Pluck is aroused.--We take the Trail.--The Comanche Camp.--A Surprise.--
The Result.--Visitors.--Cuc