War Trail


"Land of the nopal and maguey—home of Moctezuma and Malinché!—I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand wax weak, and heart grow old, but never till both are cold can I forget thee! I would not; for thee would I remember. Not for all the world would I bathe my soul in the waters of Lethe. Blessed be memory for thy sake!" So begins this tale of the American Southwest, when our narrator, Captain Warfield of a Ranger detachment, shoots the horse of Isolina de Vargas. Our captain is smitten with Señorita de Vargas at first sight, and he finds that she is as illusive as she is beautiful. (18 hr 25 min)

Chapters

Souvenirs
A Mexican Frontier Village
The Rangers on Picket
Making a Captive
My Captive
Isolina de Vargas
An Order to Forage
Don Ramon
"Un Papelcito"
An Old Emnity
Rafael Ijurra
The Yellow Domino
The Blue Domino
Love-Thoughts
An Odd Epistle
The Manada
The Hunt of the Wild Horse
The Phantom-Horse
A Prairie Dream
Lost Upon the Prairie
A Prairie Repast
Chased by a "Grizzly"
The Toughest Struggle of my Life
Old Comrades
A Queer Conversation
Vows of Vengeance
A "Weed" -Prairie Fire
Rube Roasted Alive
The Mesa
Guerrilleros
The Parley
A Dead Shot
A Running-Shot
Rube's Charger
El Zorro
A Plan of Escape
Elijah Quackenboss
Rube's Plan
Scaling the Cliff
A Reinforcement
The Indian Spy
The Caballada
A Chapters of Explanations
Dutch Lige in a Difficulty
A Lover on the Trail
A Declaration on Horseback
Strayed from the Track
An Adios
Threats
Awkward Odds
An Official Black List
The Route
Camp Gossip
The Ruined Rancho
A Cruel Proscription
The Bivouac of the Guerrilla
Taking the Trail
The Voyageur
Trailing by Torch-Light
The Sombrero
The Trail Recovered
Wolves on the Track
Across the Torrent
The Lilliputian Forest
Scattering the Wild Stallions
Lost in a Chapparal
Encounter with Javall
The Woods on Fire?
Smoke and Thirst
A Burnt Prairie
The Talk of the Trackers
"Injun Sign"
Translating the "Sign"
The Steed Lazoed
The "Indios Bravos"
On the War-Trail
The Writing on the Maguey
The Southern Savage
The Subterranean Fire
A Red Epistle
More Writing in Red
An "Injun on the Back-Track"
My Plan
"Painting Injun"
The Last Hours on the Trail
The Comanche Camp
No Cover
Rube Consulting His Oracle
The Trapper's Counsel
Taking to the Water
Up-Stream
Coup-d'oeil of the Camp
A Friendly Encounter
The Council
Measuring the Chances
The White-Haired Chief
Speeches in Council
A Rough Courtship
The Crisis
The Last Chase