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  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. Joe Gets Bad News About His Lungs--His "Pipes," as Spider Called Them 13

  II. Joe Learns How Many Friends He Has, and Achieves a Tent to Sleep In 21

  III. Spider Finds a Way to Get to the Rocky Mountains, to "Pump Joe's Pipes Full of Ozone" 32

  IV. Tom and Joe Cross the Continent with Their Faces Glued to the Car Window and Reach the Rocky Mountains 43

  V. The Scouts Learn Why the Rocky Mountains Have No Foot-Hills and Arrive at Many Glacier 54

  VI. Tom Becomes Boss of the Tepee Camp, and the Scouts Pitch Their Tents in the Evergreens 63

  VII. Joe Gets Acquainted with Porcupines, the Diamond Hitch, and Switchback Trails 73

  VIII. Joe Gets a Chance at Last to Go out on a Trip As Camp Cook 93

  IX. Over Piegan Pass to St. Mary Lake, Underneath the Precipices 100

  X. The Ranger Tells a Grizzly Bear Story Before the Camp-Fire 123

  XI. To Gunsight Lake, and Joe Falls Into a Crevasse on Blackfeet Glacier 129

  XII. Over Gunsight to Lake McDonald, and Joe and Bob See a Grizzly at Close Range 144

  XIII. In Avalanche Basin, Where Bob Learns That the Story of the Englishman's Walk Before Breakfast Was No Joke 168

  XIV. Up the Divide in a Rain, with a Lost Horse on the Way, and a Howling Snow-Storm at the Top 177

  XV. Tom's Chance for Adventure Comes Unexpectedly, Wearing Hobnail Shoes and Carrying a Rope 189

  XVI. Tom Goes up a Two Thousand Foot Wall, with an Alpine Rope, and Learns the Proper Way to Climb 203

  XVII. Tom Sees Both Mountain Sheep and Goats Do Their Wild Leaps Down Dizzy Ledges 218

  XVIII. Joe Gets Good News from the Doctor, and the Scouts Name Their Camp, "Camp Kent" 232

  XIX. The Indian Pow-Wow--Tom and Joe Get Into the Squaw Dance 240

  XX. The Scouts Start on a Trip Together at Last, to Climb Chief Mountain 250

  XXI. The Climb up the Tower of Chief Mountain, the Indian Relic on the Summit and an Eagle's Nest 257

  XXII. A Blizzard on Flat Top--The Camp is Christened "Valley Forge" 268

  XXIII. Up to Chaney Glacier and the Discovery of a Three Thousand Foot Precipice 276

  XXIV. The Boys Prepare for Winter in the Park, and Learn Why the Timber-Line Trees Are Only Three Feet Tall 283

  XXV. Protecting the Deer Yards--the Scouts Wait in the Moonlight and Bag a Mountain Lion 291

  XXVI. A Hundred Miles in Four Days, Over the Snow, Which Is a Long Trip to Get Your Mail 302

  XXVII. The Ranger and the Boys Get a Ride Down the Mountain on a Snow Avalanche, and Don't Look for Another 312

  XXVIII. Tom Starts on a Long Hike in the Deep Snow, over the Divide, Risking Snow-Slides, to Save the Ranger's Life 318

  XXIX. Tom Tramps Down McDonald Creek in a Chinook Wind, and Reaches Shelter Almost Exhausted 322

  XXX. Tom Gets Back with the Doctor, and Mills Pulls Through--then the Scouts Have to Leave for Home 327

  XXXI. Home Again--Joe's Christmas Present to His Mother Is Sound Health Again, and Tom Rejoices 334