Life of the Marlows: A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days

Contents

Contents Dramatis Personae .............................................................................. vi List of Illustrations ...............................................................................x Editor’s Introduction ............................................................................1 Chapter I Pioneer Days—An Indian Scare ........................................9 Chapter II Adventures in the Southwest—A Love Affair ................14 Chapter III Scenes and Adventures in Mexico ................................21 Chapter IV An Indian Chase—Marriage and Death ........................32 Chapter V Boone Kills a Man—Terrible Battle With Wolves..........38 Chapter VI A Dark and Diabolic Plot...............................................45 Chapter VII The Plot Deepens—The Marlows in Chains................50 Chapter VIII War Clouds—Boone Gathers Another Victim............60 Chapter IX Reward for Boone, Dead or Alive—His Escape ...........68 Chapter X Escape From Prison—Recaptured ..................................73 Chapter XI Lynch Law—At the Mercy of the Mob .........................79 Chapter XII Removal and Final Attack—Battle of Dry Creek ........87 Chapter XIII The Story in a New York Paper, in June 1891 ............96 Chapter XIV The Home Besieged—One Hundred to One ............105 Chapter XV Prisoners Again—Boone Murdered ...........................110 Chapter XVI Arrest and Trial of the Conspirators .........................119 Chapter XVII The Result—Extracts and Opinions........................138 Chapter XVIII Retrospective—The Marlows’ Lives, Their Happiness and Grief, Past and Present ............................146 Chapter XIX Old Wounds Reopened— The Colorado Home Invaded .....................................................155 Bibliography .....................................................................................188 Index .................................................................................................195 ...