Cooke, Philip Saint George, was an American military officer(1809--1895). He was graduated at West Point in 1827 and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. In the Mexican war he commanded a regiment in the city of Mexico, and in the Civil War sided with the Union and greatly distinguished himself in the Peninsular campaign. He was the author of works on tactics, and of Scenes and Adventures in the ArmyConquest of New Mexico and California (1878).

CHAPTER I.
On theGrand Prairie"—Book-making—A Botanical Walk—Dialogue—Indian Anecdote

CHAPTER II.
Dialogue on Books and Authors—Discovery of New Mexico—Council Grove—Splendid Sunset—Gold Mines—Wet March—Thoughts on the Murder of Chavis,

CHAPTER III.
Another Squadron Joins—Dialogue on Newspapers and Books—4p Alarm—News—Pawnee Rock—Buffalo Charge the Camp

CHAPTER IV.
Indians About—Jackson Grove—A Buffalo that could not be Killed—Dialogue on Indian Tactics—Where shall the Winter be Passed?—Wolf Howling, Music and Romance—Meet Mexican Escort

CHAPTER V.
Return March—Splendid Elk Chase—Dialogue and Soliloquy—Buffalo Chase—Criticism of J. P. R. James—Prairie on Fire—Snow Storm—Fort Leavenworth

CHAPTER VI.
March for the Rooky Mountains—Emigrants—Pretty Scenery—Dialogue—A Prairie Marriage—The Little Blue—A Hurricane—Pawnees—Attacked by a Dog—Splendid Sunrise on the Platte

CHAPTER VII.
The Platte—A Phenomenon—Thoughts on Cortez, and Conquest of Mexico—A Picturesque Funeral—Beautiful Camping Scene—Bad Grass—Buffalo, and the Chase—Scene at Crossing of the Platte—Dialogue—Day-dreams—And a Real Dream in Ash Hollow

CHAPTER VIII.
A Ridiculous Buffalo Chase—A Narrow Escape—CreoleEngages"—Dialogue on Poetry, Astronomy, and Natural Philosophy

CHAPTER IX.
Wonderful Mirage, and Beautiful Scenery—A Sioux Village—Dialogue, Women Compared with Men—Poetry and Romance Favorable to Women—Verses

CHAPTER X.
Scotts Bluff, Romantic Scenery—The Prairie Animals—Motives of Emigration—Dialogue, and Night Thoughts

CHAPTER XI.
Fort Laramie—Mongrel Population—The Sioux in Council—March for the Mountains—A Lost Squaw and Children—Man Shot—Night Scene

CHAPTER XII.
Grizzly Bear Chase—Volcanic Desert and Epsom Salt—Buffalo Chase There—Independence Rock, and Sweet Water—Devils Gate, Sublime Scene—Chamois, orBig-horn" Chase—First View of Snow Peaks,

CHAPTER XIII.
Halt in a Beautiful Valley—Dialogue on The Beautiful—Tyranny of Society and Fashion—Golden Sands, Palaeontology—One View of Niagara Falls

CHAPTER XIV.
South Pass, Camp in Oregon—The Spring of the Sweet Water —Moonlight Soliloquy on a Mountain Peak

CHAPTER XV.
Homeward Bound—Poor Lands of Oregon—Prairie Pet Animals—Fourth of July Thoughts, Independence, Liberty, and Equality—What Nations have them—Indian Romance, and American Literature

CHAPTER XVI.
Farewell to Sweet Water—The Emigrants—Magnificent Scenery First Seen by Whites—A Romantic Night Watch, Dialogue— Episode of the Florida War

CHAPTER XVII.
Was it a Dream? Watchers Soliloquy—Singular Disease, Fortunately no Physician—Cub, a Tragedy in Three Acts—Great Fire and Escape—First March Southward—Evening Meditation

CHAPTER XVIII.
Romantic Cheyenne Village—Adventures There—Our Few Wants Unsupplied in the Wilderness—March Without Water —Lost Squaw Restored to her Friends—Longs Peak—Arrive at South Platte

CHAPTER XIX.
ANew Style"—Dialogue—Lost Hunters Return—Mount Pike —A Charming Mountain Valley—Night Scenes and Adventures—Storm in the Mountains

CHAPTER XX.
The Storm Discussed—Daily Showers in the Mountains, sometimes Snow—The Arkansas, Bents Fort—Mexicans, Donkeys, Indians—A Medicine Lodge—Indian Customs

CHAPTER XXI.
Our Daily Labors—Reverie—Botany—Language of Flowers—Last Buffalo Chase—Hard and Hot March—Reach Home

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