"Land of the nopal and maguey, home of Moctezuma and Malinché!, I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand wax weak, and heart grow old, but never till both are cold can I forget thee! I would not; for thee would I remember. Not for all the world would I bathe my soul in the waters of Lethe. Blessed be memory for thy sake!" So begins this tale of the American Southwest, when our narrator, Captain Warfield of a Ranger detachment, shoots the horse of Isolina de Vargas. Our captain is smitten with Señorita de Vargas at first sight, and he finds that she is as illusive as she is beautiful.
Chapters
1 Souvenirs 9 min 2 A Mexican Frontier Village 10 min 3 The Rangers on Picket 15 min 4 Making a Captive 12 min 5 My Captive 9 min 6 Isolina de Vargas 18 min 7 An Order to Forage 16 min 8 Don Ramon 11 min 9 Un Papelcito 14 min 10 An Old Emnity 14 min 11 Rafael Ijurra 19 min 12 The Yellow Domino 12 min 13 The Blue Domino 18 min 14 Love-Thoughts 9 min 15 An Odd Epistle 12 min 16 The Manada 14 min 17 The Hunt of the Wild Horse 6 min 18 The Phantom-Horse 14 min 19 A Prairie Dream 10 min 20 Lost Upon the Prairie 10 min 21 A Prairie Repast 11 min 22 Chased by a "Grizzly" 15 min 23 The Toughest Struggle of my Life 10 min 24 Old Comrades 13 min 25 A Queer Conversation 14 min 26 Vows of Vengeance 12 min 27 A "Weed" -Prairie Fire 16 min 28 Rube Roasted Alive 15 min 29 The Mesa 14 min 30 Guerrilleros 13 min 31 The Parley 10 min 32 A Dead Shot 11 min 33 A Running-Shot 17 min 34 Rube's Charger 11 min 35 El Zorro 9 min 36 A Plan of Escape 11 min 37 Elijah Quackenboss 10 min 38 Rube's Plan 11 min 39 Scaling the Cliff 17 min 40 A Reinforcement 9 min 41 The Indian Spy 9 min 42 The Caballada 10 min 43 A Chapters of Explanations 14 min 44 Dutch Lige in a Difficulty 10 min 45 A Lover on the Trail 17 min 46 A Declaration on Horseback 13 min 47 Strayed from the Track 16 min 48 An Adios 10 min 49 Threats 12 min 50 Awkward Odds 15 min 51 An Official Black List 8 min 52 The Route 14 min 53 Camp Gossip 12 min 54 The Ruined Rancho 10 min 55 A Cruel Proscription 9 min 56 The Bivouac of the Guerrilla 11 min 57 Taking the Trail 10 min 58 The Voyageur 7 min 59 Trailing by Torch-Light 8 min 60 The Sombrero 7 min 61 The Trail Recovered 8 min 62 Wolves on the Track 7 min 63 Across the Torrent 10 min 64 The Lilliputian Forest 9 min 65 Scattering the Wild Stallions 9 min 66 Lost in a Chapparal 7 min 67 Encounter with Javall 11 min 68 The Woods on Fire? 10 min 69 Smoke and Thirst 8 min 70 A Burnt Prairie 8 min 71 The Talk of the Trackers 12 min 72 Injun Sign 8 min 73 Translating the "Sign" 9 min 74 The Steed Lazoed 9 min 75 The "Indios Bravos" 12 min 76 On the War-Trail 11 min 77 The Writing on the Maguey 9 min 78 The Southern Savage 9 min 79 The Subterranean Fire 13 min 80 A Red Epistle 12 min 81 More Writing in Red 10 min 82 An "Injun on the Back-Track" 10 min 83 My Plan 7 min 84 Painting Injun 12 min 85 The Last Hours on the Trail 8 min 86 The Comanche Camp 8 min 87 No Cover 10 min 88 Rube Consulting His Oracle 8 min 89 The Trapper's Counsel 9 min 90 Taking to the Water 9 min 91 Up-Stream 10 min 92 Coup-d'oeil of the Camp 8 min 93 A Friendly Encounter 10 min 94 The Council 7 min 95 Measuring the Chances 9 min 96 The White-Haired Chief 9 min 97 Speeches in Council 11 min 98 A Rough Courtship 10 min 99 The Crisis 10 min 100 The Last Chase 15 min
