Silverspur; or, The Mountain Heroine: A Tale of the Arapaho Country

Chapter 19: Transcriber’s Notes:

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About This Book

A frontier adventure that follows rugged mountain men and a courageous woman in Arapaho country as tensions between settlement life and the wilderness unfold. The narrative moves from saloon conversations in a river city to perilous journeys across plains and mountains, depicting tracking, pursuit, and tests of loyalty and endurance. Encounters with Indigenous groups, disputes over land and identity, and personal quests produce confrontations and rescues, while vivid depictions of travel, survival, and landscape emphasize courage, resourcefulness, and the harsh realities of life on the western frontier.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

A prequel to this story appears in Edward Willett, The Gray Scalp; or, the Blackfoot Brave, Beadle’s Dime Novels, No. 205, Beadle and Company, New York, 1870, which is posted on Project Gutenberg (#56175).

The title in the back cover entry for American Tales, Second Series, No. 13, is incorrect and should be The Mysterious Spy.

The following change was made:

p. 85: “for” inserted (reason for his)

back cover: “of” inserted (Prisoner of La Vintresse)