The Second William Penn
PREFACE.
REMINISCENCE OF THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL.
- CHAPTER I. In 1861 He Starts as Mail Driver.
- CHAPTER II. The Nine Mile Ridge Massacre.
- CHAPTER III. Ryus' Coach Is Surrounded by Indians,
Their Animosities are Turned to Friendliness, Through Ryus' Wit and
Ingenuity—“Hail the Second William Penn.”
- CHAPTER IV. The Chivington Massacre.
- CHAPTER V. Barnum, Veil and Vickeroy Go a
Journeying With Barlow and Sanderson.—Vickeroy Is Branded “U.S.M.”
- CHAPTER VI. Colonel Boone Gets Judge Wright's
Enmity. Lincoln Appoints Col. A.G. Boone Indian Agent. Arrangements Are
Made With Commissioners For Indian Annuities. Mr. Haynes Sends Troops
to Burn Out Colonel Boone.
- CHAPTER VII. Colonel Boone Acquires Squire Wright's
Enmity.
- CHAPTER VIII. Macauley and Lambert Spar; Macauley
is Placed in Guard House and the Indian Agency Reverts to Major
Anthony.
- CHAPTER IX. The Fort Riley Soldiers Go to Fort
Larned to Horse Race With Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas.
- CHAPTER X. Major Carleton Orders Colonel Willis to
Go Into Southwestern Indian Territory and “Clean Out the Indians.” Kit
Carson Volunteers to Go With Colonel Willis as Scout and Protector.
- CHAPTER XI. W. H. Ryus Enters Second Contract With
Stage Company, Messenger and Conductor of the U. S. Mail and Express.
- CHAPTER XII. Billy Ryus and Col. Leavenworth
Invade Camp Where There Are 30,000 Hostile Indians.
- CHAPTER XIII. A “Trifling Incident”—Billy Ryus
Runs Risks With Government Property.
- CHAPTER XIV. Tom Barnum Muses Over the Position
the Government Will Take in Regard to the Bed of Red River Being
Suitable Resting Place for the U.S. Mail.
- CHAPTER XV. Tom Barnum Takes Smallpox. I Visit My
Home. Dr. Hopkins Gets Broken Window, a Quarter, and the Ill Will of
the Stage Company.
- CHAPTER XVI. Uncle Dick Wooten Erects a Toll Gate.
Major Pendelton Carries Cash in Coach to Pay Troops.
- CHAPTER XVII. The Cold Weather Pinches Passengers
Going Across the Plains.
- CHAPTER XVIII. Lucien Maxwell and Kit Carson Take
Sheep to California. A Synopsis of the Life of Mr. Maxwell, a Rich
Ranchman.
- CHAPTER XIX. Kit Carson, My Friend.
- CHAPTER XX. General Carleton Received Orders from
Mr. Moore to Send Soldiers' Pay Envelopes to Him.
- CHAPTER XXI. Joe Dillon and I Go to Montana With
Sheep.
- CHAPTER XXII. Daugherty, a Silk and Linen Drummer,
Contracts to Build a Cellar.
- CHAPTER XXIII. Captain Conkey.
- CHAPTER XXIV. Colonel Moore's Graphic Description
of a Fight with Cheyennes.[1]
- CHAPTER XXV. Pecos Church.
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