Eighteen-year-old Jud Pitcher takes work at a newly built Dakota railroad town just before winter cuts it off from the world. Left with a dog, a cat, livestock, bitter storms, wolves, and dangerous outlaws, he must turn an abandoned settlement into a fortress and survive until the trains return.
Hindi
Romance
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Chapter 1
CHAPTER I: Something about my Home and Track’s End: with how I leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the other. -
Chapter 2
CHAPTER II: The rest of my second Night at Track’s End, and part of another: with some Things which happen between. -
Chapter 3
CHAPTER III: A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go away from Track’s End and how some others come. -
Chapter 4
CHAPTER IV: We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little Trip out to Bill Mountain’s House: after I come back I show what a great Fool I can be. -
Chapter 5
CHAPTER V: Alone in Track’s End I repent of my hasty Action: with what I do at the Headquarters House, and the whole Situation in a Nutshell. -
Chapter 6
CHAPTER VI: Some Account of what I do and think the first Day alone: with a Discovery by Kaiser at the End. -
Chapter 7
CHAPTER VII: I have a Fight and a Fright: after which I make some Plans for the Future and take up my Bed and move. -
Chapter 8
CHAPTER VIII: I begin my Letters to my Mother and start my Fortifications: then I very foolishly go away, meet with an Accident, and see Something which throws me into the utmost Terror. -
Chapter 9
CHAPTER IX: More of a strange Christmas: I make Kaiser useful in an odd Way, together with what I see from under the Depot Platform. -
Chapter 10
CHAPTER X: A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and think of Something which I don’t believe the Indians will like. -
Chapter 11
CHAPTER XI: I give the savage Indians a great Scare, and then gather up my scattered Family at the end of a queer Christmas Day. -
Chapter 12
CHAPTER XII: One of my Letters to my Mother, in which I tell of many Things and especially of a Mystery which greatly puzzles and alarms me. -
Chapter 13
CHAPTER XIII: Some Talk at Breakfast, and various other Family Affairs: with Notes on the Weather, and a sight of Something to the Northwest. -
Chapter 14
CHAPTER XIV: I have an exciting Hunt and get some Game, which I bring Home with a vast deal of Labor, only to lose Part of it in a startling Manner: together with a Dream and an Awakening. -
Chapter 15
CHAPTER XV: The mysterious Fire, and Something further about my wretched State of Terror: with an Account of my great System of Tunnels and famous Fire Stronghold. -
Chapter 16
CHAPTER XVI: Telling of how Pike and his Gang come and of what Kaiser and I do to get ready for them: together with the Way we meet them. -
Chapter 17
CHAPTER XVII: The Fight, and not much else: except a little Happening at the End which startles me greatly. -
Chapter 18
CHAPTER XVIII: After the Fight: also a true Account of the great Blizzard: with how I go to sleep in the Stronghold and am awakened before Morning. -
Chapter 19
CHAPTER XIX: I find out who my Visitor is: with Something about him, but with more about the Chinook which came out of the Northwest: together with what I do with the Powder, and how I again wake up suddenly. -
Chapter 20
CHAPTER XX: What the Outlaws do on their second Visit: with the awful Hours I pass through, and how I find myself at the End. -
Chapter 21
CHAPTER XXI: After the Explosion: some cheerful Talk with the Thieves, and a strange but welcome Message out of the Storm. -
Chapter 22
CHAPTER XXII: The last Chapter, but a good Deal in it: a free Lodging for the Night, with a little Speech by Mr. Clerkinwell: then, how Kaiser and I take a long Journey, and how we never go that Way again.