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                              THE STORY OF
                 Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great
                         Colorado of the West.

                        _By_ ALFRED R. CALHOUN,

                              _Author of_
         "Cochise," "Excelsior," "The Californians," etc., etc.

                              ILLUSTRATED.

                               NEW YORK:
                         A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.

                    _Copyright 1888, by A. L. Burt._

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[Illustration: _Sam succeeded in guiding the raft to a ledge of sloping
rocks._]

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CONTENTS


    CHAPTER I.--A REMARKABLE CAMP.
    CHAPTER II.--LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD.
    CHAPTER III.--SAM'S TRIALS BEGIN.
    CHAPTER IV.--A PERILOUS SITUATION.
    CHAPTER V.--AT HURLEY'S GULCH.
    CHAPTER VI.--WHY THE PAPERS WERE NOT BROUGHT.
    CHAPTER VII.--THE WONDERFUL VOYAGE BEGINS.
    CHAPTER VIII.--MR. WILLETT AND HANK TIMS.
    CHAPTER IX.--A FRUITLESS EFFORT.
    CHAPTER X.--A NIGHT OF AWFUL GLOOM.
    CHAPTER XI.--A TRYING SITUATION.
    CHAPTER XII.--THE VOYAGE IS RESUMED.
    CHAPTER XIII.--WHIRLED AWAY.
    CHAPTER XIV.--ORDER AND DISORDER.
    CHAPTER XV.--THE PROVISIONS ALL GONE.
    CHAPTER XVI.--DANGER AHEAD.
    CHAPTER XVII.--MR. WILLETT LEARNS THE NEWS.
    CHAPTER XV