De Smet of the Jesuit Society. Delivered before the Missiouri Valley Hist. Society, Kansas City, Feb. 7, 1914. 14 pp. 8vo, sewed. (Kansas City, 1914). $2.00 678 Duval, John C. The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter. Illus. 12mo, cloth. Phila., 1871. $12.50 679 Egan, Howard. Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878. Major Howard Egan's Diary; also, thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians: their traits, civil and savage, and part of Autobiography, inter-related to his father's, by Howard R. Egan. Edited by Wm. M. Egan. İllus. 12mo, cloth. Richmond, Utah, 1917. $10.00 680 Farrow, Edward S. Camping on the Trail, or, Some of my experiences in the Indian country. Illus. 12mo, cloth. Phila., n. d., circa 1900. $2.50 681 Forman, Samuel S. Narrative of a Journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. With a Memoir and notes by Lyman C. Draper. 12mo, cloth. Cincinnati, 1888. $2.00 682 Fremont, John Charles. Memoirs of My Life. 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