Buffalo days : forty years in the old West: the personal narrative of a cattleman, Indian fighter and army officer
Titles include "I look pretty," "Fun," "Riding on the train," "Harriet Tubman," and "By myself."
Biographies
13 preliminary leaves, 369 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 22 cm
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Dedication
Introduction / J.G. Harbord
Introductory comment / George Bird Grinnell
A free-will offering / Jesse M. Lee
A true friend / Eben Swift
Preface
Part One: Civilian experiences in the West: Early life and first days in the West
An Indian massacre
the Beecher Island Fight
Carrying despatches
lynching of my companion
In charge of a bull train
Looking for lost cattle
Perils of the prairie
My second cattle venture
The round-up
Lost on the prairie
A lost outfit
capture of a horse thief
After hostile Cheyennes
Hunting the buffalo
My mining experience
An Indian fight
I join the army Part Two: My army career: First experiences wearing the blue
Racing in the army and among the Indians
A "call to arms"
a winter campaign
Fight with Dull Knife's band
More scouting experiences
Escort to General Sheridan [from Fort Washakie, Wyo. {Wyoming} to Fort Custer, Mont. {Montana}]
A stampede
the Fetterman Massacre
Visit to Custer Battle-field [Battlefield]
the Battle
The killing of Crazy Horse
After the Nez Perce Indians and a scout for Indians [at Fort McPherson, Nebraska]
At Fort Washakie
Issuing annuity goods
Horse thieves set an eye on me
Escorting General Gibbon
First lieutenant
back East
The charge of the wagon train Part Three: Some famous western characters: William Comstock and John Whiteford
Captain George W. Graham
"Wild Bill" Hickok
"Buffalo Bill"
Jim Bridger's story
Sheridan, Kansas, in 1868-69
hanging of "Buffalo Joe"
Western "bad men" and rustlers Part Four: In command of Indian scouts: Making soldiers of Indians
My men and their families
After the "Sooners"
outwitted by a woman
My company of Indian scouts Part Five: Indians and their ways: Family life of the Indians
Indian medicine
Indian religion
Honesty of the Indian
Scalping
The Indians as trailers
The Indian Messiah craze
Various Indian ways Part Six: Service in Porto [Puerto] Rico and retirement: Building in Porto Rico
Index. Illustrations: Col. [Colonel] Homer W. Wheeler
Sitting Bull; Washakie; Chief Gall / D.F. Barry; Black Coal; Sharp Nose
Sergeant Meat, wife, and daughter
Comanche [horse ridden by Keogh at the Battle of the Little Bighorn]
Crazy Horse, a leading chief in the Battle of the Little Big Horn [Bighorn], June 25, 1876
Rain-in-the-Face
Curley, one of Custer's Indian scouts
Custer's last stand / Theodore B. Pitman, Boston, Massachusetts
Indian women erecting tepee; Spotted Tail ; Sioux Indian village
Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin's charge on Grey Beard's camp, McLellan's Creek, Texas, November 8, 1874
Cheyenne children [in] dresses trimmed with elk teeth worth several hundred dollars
Lieutenant Wheeler and Company A, Cheyenne Indian scouts, at Fort Elliott, Texas, 1889
Camp of Cheyenne scouts and families at Fort Elliott, Texas, in 1889
Hoch-E-A-Ym, the great Medicine Dance / J.E. Taylor
Barraquitas, showing road built by Captain Wheeler
Rewritten from the author's The frontier trail, published in 1923