/COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES

OR THE

Journal of a Santa Fé Trader,

DURING

EIGHT EXPEDITIONS ACROSS

THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES,

AND

A RESIDENCE OF NEARLY NINE YEARS

IN

NORTHERN MEXICO.

Illustrated with Maps and Engravings.

BY JOSIAH GREGG.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. IL

SECOND EDITION.

NEW YORK:

J. & H. G. LANGLEY, 8 ASTOR HOUSE

1845.

BUHR GRAD

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by

HENRY G. LANGLEY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of

New York.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

Return to Prairie Life-Abandonment of the regular

Route The Start-A Suicide-Arrest of a Mulatto for

Debt-Cherokee 'Bankrupt Law'-Chuly, the Creek In-

dian-The Muster and the Introduction-An' Olla Po-

drida'-Adventure of a 'Down-Easter'-Arrival of U.

S. Dragoons-Camp Holmes, and the Road-A Visit

from a Party of Comanches-Tabba-quena, a noted Chief

-His extraordinary Geographical Talent-Indians set out

for the Capitan Grande,' and we through an unexplored

Region-Rejoined by Tabba-quena and his ' suite’—Spring

Valley-The Buffalo Fever-The Chase-A Green-horn

Scamper-Prairie Fuel,

CHAPTER II.

Travelling out of our Latitude-The Buffalo-gnat-A Ki-

awa and Squaw-Indian crim. con. Affair-Extraordinary

Mark of confidence in the White Man-A Conflagration-

An Espy Shower-ion of Gypsum-Our Latitude-

A Lilliputian Forest A Party of Comanches-A Visit

to a 'Dog-Town'—Indian Archery—Arrival of Comanche

Warriors-A'Big Talk' and its Results-Speech of the

Capitan Mayor-Project of bringing Comanche Chiefs to

Washington-Return of Lieut. Bowman, and our March

resumed—Melancholy Reflections—Another Indian Visit

--Mexican Captives-Voluntary Captivity-A sprightly

Mexican Lad-Purchase of a Captive-Comanche Trade

and Etiquette-Indians least dangerous to such as trade

with them,

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