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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