Excerpt from The Pirates of the Prairies: Or Adventures in the American Desert I.-the Cache II - The Ambuscade iii.-an Old Acquaintance of the Reader IV. - Red Cedar at Bay f V. - The Grotto VL - The Proposition VIL - Ellen and Dona Clara 'iii. - The Flight IX. - The Teocali X. - The White Gazelle XL - The Apaches XIL - Black Cat XIII - The Great Medicine xiv-the Succor xv.-on the Island XVI - Sunbeam I XVII - Indian Hospitality. XVIII - Love l XIX - The Dance of the Old Dogs XX. - A Hand-to-hand Fight XXL - The Avenger XXII - Explanatory XXIII. - 'apaches and Comanches XXIV. - The scalp-dance. XXV - The Torture.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.