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[Illustration: Indian alarm on the Cimarron River]
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D.
Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents", "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition", "Hennepin's New Discovery," etc.
Volume XX Part II of Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839
Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1905
COPYRIGHT 1905, BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO
COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES; or, The Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico. (Part II: Chapters xii-xvi of Volume I, and all of Volume II of original.) _Josiah Gregg._
"Indian Alarm on the Cimarron River" _Frontispiece_
"Map of the Interior of Northern Mexico" _Facing_ 21
Medal of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Mexico (text cut) 40
Mule emerging from a mine; Still Hunting (text cuts in original) 181
"'Dog Town,' or Settlement of Prairie Dogs" 279
PART II OF GREGG'S COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES, OR THE JOURNAL OF A SANTA FÉ TRADER--1831-1839
Reprint of chapters xii-xvi of Volume I, and all of Volume II of the second edition: New York, 1845
Government of New Mexico -- The Administration of Justice -- Judicial Corruption -- Prejudices against Americans -- Partiality for the English -- Anecdote of Governor Armijo and a Trapper -- Outrage upon an American Physician -- Violence suffered by the American Consul and others -- Arbitrary Impositions upon Foreigners -- _Contribucion de Guerra_ -- The Alcaldes and their System -- The _Fueros_ -- Mode of punishing Delinquents and Criminals -- Mexican System of Slavery -- Thieves and Thieveries Outrage upon an American Merchant -- Gambling and Gambling-houses -- Game of _Monte_ -- Anecdote of a Lady of Fashion -- _Chuza_ -- Cockpits -- _Correr el gallo_ -- _El Coleo_ -- Fandangoes -- _Cigarritos_, 21