BEYOND THE SUNSET
BY
ARTHUR D. HOWDEN SMITH
AUTHOR OF "THE DOOM TRAIL"
NEW YORK
BRENTANO'S
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1923
BY BRENTANO'S
COPYRIGHT, 1923
BY THE RIDGEWAY COMPANY
First Printing . . . January, 1923.
Second " . . . February, 1923
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I I Am Saved from Myself
II The Wilderness Trail
III The Shawnee Scalp-Hunters
IV A Meeting in the Wilderness
V The Father of Waters
VI We Cross the Great River
VII The Country of the Dakota
VIII The Fight for the Herd
IX The Horse Stealers
X The Wolf-Brothers
XI The Mountain That Was God
XII The Altar of Tamanoas
XIII We Turn Back
XIV The Squat Bowmen
XV Kachina
XVI In Homolobi
XVII The Web of Destiny
XVIII Tawannears' Search Is Ended
XIX Peter's Boulder
XX The Spotted Stallion
XXI The Stampede
XXII Our Trade with the Tonkawas
XXIII My Orenda Saves Us
XXIV A Prophet in Spite of Himself
XXV Homeward
XXVI The End of the Trail
BEYOND THE SUNSET
CHAPTER I
I AM SAVED FROM MYSELF
There is none like your wanderer to settle himselfcoseywise by a warm hearth. An outcast and adventurerfrom boyhood, exiled from England for adherenceto the Pretender, my estates forfeited, dependent forbread upon the earnings of my sword in a foreign service,Fate tossed me across the broad Atlantic to this New Worldof ours—and in one short year I had found Marjory andfortune!
I became straightway as sedate as any Dutch burgherbetwixt Port George and the stockade of the Outward.Camp-bred and forest-schooled, I yet discovered zest in theproblems of mer