CONTENTS
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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
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