[Gutenberg 41877] • The Lure of the Mississippi

Excerpt from "Indian" Stories With Historical Bases: On the Trail of the Sioux, the Silver Island of the Chippewa, Lost in the Fur Country, in the Great Wild North, the Lure of the Black Hills, the Lure of the Mississippi, the Silver Cache of the Pawnee

This is an adventure story of the Old Santa Fe Trail.

The Old Trail ran from Independence, near Kansas City, to Santa Fe, across the buffalo country of the Great Plains, a distance about the same as that from New York to Chicago.

At the time of the story, about 1835, the vast American prairies west of the Mississippi were the undisputed territory of the buffalo and the Plains Indians.

The powerful and warlike tribes of Pawnees and Comanches, of Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Sioux, were all bold horsemen, hunters, and warriors.

Some of the tribes lived south and some north of the Arkansas River, where it flows through the present States of Kansas and Colorado.

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