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             THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT




                    THE AWAKENING
                    OF THE DESERT

                          BY

                   JULIUS C. BIRGE

                 _With Illustrations_

                    [Illustration]

                  RICHARD G. BADGER
                   THE GORHAM PRESS
                        BOSTON




        _Copyright 1912 by Richard G. Badger_
                _All Rights Reserved_


         _The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A_.




CONTENTS


   CHAPTER                                                    PAGE

         I  A Call to the Wilderness                            11

        II  "Roll Out"                                          18

       III  The Advancing Wave of Civilization                  24

        IV  A River Town of the Day                             38

         V  Our Introduction to the Great Plains                52

        VI  The Oregon Trail                                    64

       VII  Society in the Wilderness                           76

      VIII  Jack Morrow's Ranch                                 88

        IX  Men of the Western Twilight                        102

         X  Dan, the Doctor                                    118

        XI  Fording the Platte in High Water                   133

       XII  The Phantom Liar of Greasewood Desert              142

      XIII  The Mystery of Scott's Bluffs                      156

       XIV  The Peace Pipe at Laramie                          167

        XV  Red Cloud on the War Path                          186

       XVI  The Mormon Trail                                   196

      XVII  Wild Midnight Revelry in the Caspar Hills          211

