Twenty-five years among the Indians and buffalo : a frontier memoir

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Part I. Early years in kansas: 1861-1867

Boyhood becomes early manhood: 1861-1867

Frontier teamster: summer 1867

Part II. Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry: 1868-1869 winter campaign

On the march to Camp Supply: October-November 1868

The balance of forces on the plains: 1868

Custer at the Washita: November 1868

Winter march from Camp Supply to Fort Cobb: December 1868

Arrival at Fort Cobb: December-January 1868-1869

Winter camp at Fort Cobb: January 1869

Winter march to the new Fort Sill: January 1869

Fort Sill: exploring the Wichita Mountains: January-February 1869

Fort Sill: Indian legends: January-February 1869

Fort Sill: a soldier's discontents: January-February 1869

March from Fort Sill to Fort Hays: February-March 1869

Fort Sill to Fort Hays: joining Custer's command: February-March 1869

Fort Sill to Fort Hays: Custer pursues Medicine Arrow: February-March 1869

Fort Sill to Fort Hays: Custer declines to attack: February-March 1869

Fort Sill to Fort Hays: white captives released: troops eat their mules: March-April 1868

Mustered out: following the family westward: March-April 1868

Homesteading in Jewell County: May 1869

Part III. Frontier patrols with the Kansas State Militia: 1869-1870

Company D patrols north central Kansas: May-October 1869

Contacts with settlers and Kansas Geological Survey: May-October 1869

My first buffalo kill: fall 1869

Discharged from the militia and trapping beaver: November 1869

Hunting and trapping forays: winter 1869-1870

Part IV. Jewell City beginnings: 1870

The Buffalo Militia and Fort Jewell: spring 1870

Jewell City celebrates the Fourth of July: May-July 1870

Organizing Jewell County: July-September 1870

Part V. Settling Smith County: 1870-1872

Locating townsites for Gaylord and Cedarville: September 1870

The first building in Gaylord: 1871

Organizing Smith County: fall-spring 1871-1872

Part VI. Following the frontier west to Decatur County: 1872-1873

Exploring Decatur County: fall/winter 1872-1873

Homesteading in Decatur County: winter-fall 1873

Part VII. Hunting and trapping adventures on the great plains: 1873-1874

An Omaha Indian buffalo hunt in northwestern Kansas: October 1873

On the range for buffalo, beaver, otter, and wolves: October-November 1873

More hunting adventures: November-December 1873

Buffalo camp on the Republican River: December 1873

Beaver trapping tactics: January-March 1874

Hunting and trapping on Big Timber Creek: March-April 1874

Hunting buffalo on the State Line Trail: April 1874

A prairie storm scatters the horses: April 1874

Two Lance's Lakotas visit the camp: May 1874

Buffalo hunting on the Republican and Big Timber: June-August 1874

A friendly parting of ways: August-October 1874

A moonlight hunt on the Republican: October 1874

Buffalo camp on the north fork of the Republican: October 1874

Part VIII. Life with the Lakota: 1874-1875

A visit from Sitting Bull and Big Horse: November-December 1874

Lakota neighbors on the Republican: December 1874

Lessons in tribal justice: January 1875

Storms in eastern Colorado: January 1875

Taking hides to Julesburg, Colorado: February 1875

Accused of stealing Indian ponies: March 1875

Hired to recover stolen horses: March-April 1875

Cheyenne massacre on the middle fork of the Sappa

Part IX. On the trail of horse thieves: 1875

Captured by horse thieves: June 1875

Hunting down the outlaws: summer 1875

The fate of the horse thieves: fall 1875

Part X. Two years as a cowboy: 1876-1878

An introduction to cattle herding: spring 1876

Herding for High and Mayfield and the Adair brothers: April-July 1876

Riding for Quinlan and Montgomery and Elwin Webber: summer-fall 1876

A big roundup on the Smoky Hill River: 1878

Driving a herd on the Great Texas Cattle Trail: July 1878

Giving lessons to greenhorns: August 1878

Headed home to a crisis: August-September 1878

Part XI. Cavalry messenger and scout: 1878

In pursuit of northern Cheyenne bands: September-November 1878