Old Ruff, the Trapper; or, The Young Fur-Hunters

Old Ruff is an acclaimed hunter and trapper of all species. In his most daring hunt yet, he crosses paths with an Indian chief who could finally be his match.

"Could it be Maquesa?" was the next question that came to the mind of Harry, when he took occasion at the same instant to throw a sidelong glance at the other two, in the hope that possibly he could recognize one of them as the chief.

But the scrutiny through the glass had not been complete enough to enable him to do this. He believed that all three of his visitors had been in the canoes at that time, but whether either of them was the Blackfoot for whom he and the old hunter had been so persistently searching for many days, and for whom the trapper was hunting this very moment, whether he was one of the three, he could only conjecture.