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| Preface | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Living among the Indians, c. 1531 | |
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| Coronado Makes an Impression, c. December 1540 | |
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| Explorers Draw Blood, July 27, 1806 | |
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| The Pawnees Choose a Flag, September 29, 1806 | |
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| Living Off of Paradise, c. April 1810 | |
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| Encounter with Indians, May 10, 1810 | |
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| Rambling through an Indian Village, June 13, 1811 | |
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| "I Heard My Skull Brake," November 13, 1821 | |
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| An Artist's Description of a Sioux Home, c. Summer 1832 | |
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| "Creasing" a Wild Horse, c. 1832 | |
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| The Effect of a Meteor Shower on the Crows, c. October 1832 | |
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| Suffering in a "Desolate Wilderness," c. February 1833 | |
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| A Grave for a Trapper, c. September 1833 | |
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| The Power of a Pawnee Bow, May 22, 1834 | |
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| Getting Acquainted with a Grizzly, August 20, 1834 | |
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| Why She Ran Away, June 10, 1835 | |
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| A Buffalo Dance, July 29, 1835 | |
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| Surrounded at the Alamo, February 23, 1836 | |
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| Captured by Comanches, April 4, 1836 | |
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| Christmas Frolicking at Fort Union, c. 1838 | |
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| The Yearly Rendezvous, c. July 1839 | |
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| Walks-Galloping-On Falls from Grace, c. 1840 | |
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| A Flood's Aftermath, c. Summer 1846 | |
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| Birthing at Bent's Fort, July 31, 1846 | |
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| We're Taking Your Country, August 15, 1846 | |
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| A Funeral in Santa Fe, c. August 1846 | |
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| The Power of the Black-Robes, September 12, 1846 | |
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| Night Sounds of an Oglala Village, c. 1846 | |
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| A Blizzard in South Park, c. Winter 1847 | |
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| "You Don't [K]now What Trubel Is Yet," May 16, 1847 | |
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| Hanging Mexican Murderers, c. Spring 1847 | |
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| A Scout's Experience Saves Lives, c. June 1848 | |
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| The Painted Ladies of Santa Fe, c. Summer 1848 | |
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| Southwestern Mirages, September 1, 1848 | |
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| The Disaster of Fremont's Fourth Expedition, February 10, 1849 | |
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| Being Apprehensive around Apache Warriors, c. February 1849 | |
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| Unexpected Party Guests, July 4, 1849 | |
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| A Gift for a Gift, c. Summer 1849 | |
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| Inability to Save Mrs. White, c. October 1849 | |
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| Business Dealings in San Francisco, c. January 1850 | |
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| Justifying Stealing a Gold Claim, c. January 1850 | |
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| Captive Girls Brought into an Indian Village, March 21, 1851 | |
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| Fighting Comanches on the Santa Fe Trail, May 21, 1853 | |
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| Attending a Fandango, September 29, 1853 | |
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| A Bride's Possessions, c. May 1854 | |
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| "Day and Night Cannot Dwell Together," c. December 1854 | |
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| Wanting to Minister to Another Woman, August 31, 1855 | |
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| Wilderness First-Aid, c. 1855 | |
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| Report on the Mormon Handcart Company, November 2, 1856 | |
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| Provisions for Crossing the Plains, c. 1859 | |
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| Overland by Stagecoach, October 10, 1858 | |
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| Scalping Comanche Warriors, c. 1859 | |
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| Burial at Mountain Meadows, May 6, 1859 | |
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| A New Home at Gold Hill, c. July 1860 | |
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| A Mysterious Corpse, c. 1860 | |
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| Suspicious Shooting of an Officer, c. October 1860 | |
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| Dissolution of a Partnership, c. Winter 1860 | |
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| The Longest Pony Express Ride, c. May 1861 | |
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| "Everything Went Off Quietly," December 24, 1862 | |
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| Beans, Anyone? c. 1863 | |
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| The Greatest of Wrongs, c. 1863 | |
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| Inflation Comes to the Frontier, c. May 1863 | |
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| The Vigilante Committee Takes Care of Slade, c. January 1864 | |
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| Hand-to-Hand Fighting an Apache Brave, c. August 1864 | |
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| Life Is Cheap on the Yellowstone, October 1, 1864 | |
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| Testimony on the Sand Creek Massacre, March 14, 1865 | |
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| Assault on a Prairie Dog Town, c. Fall 1866 | |
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| A Cowboy Wedding, Winter 1866 | |
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| The Problem with Disobeying Orders, December 21, 1866 | |
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| The Battle Scene of the Fetterman Massacre, December 22, 1866 | |
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| Martial Law on the Plains, June 16, 1867 | |
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| The Wagon Box Fight, August 1, 1867 | |
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| Diary of a Horse Trader, c. 1867 | |
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| Letter to a Bereaved Father, August 23, 1867 | |
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| The Fight at Beecher Island, September 17, 1868 | |
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| Why I Don't Mingle in Society, September 22, 1868 | |
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| Just Desserts for a Mule, c. 1868 | |
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| The Death of Innocents, November 1868 | |
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| A Rose among Thorns, c. November 1868 | |
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| The Golden Spike Is Driven, May 10, 1869 | |
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| Paying Attention to a Good Pony, c. 1869 | |
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| Floating the Grand Canyon, August 14, 1869 | |
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| Being Fast on the Draw, c. January 1870 | |
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| A Frontier House Beautiful, April 11, 1871 | |
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| Concerns of an Officer's Wife, c. Autumn 1872 | |
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| Exchanging Courtesies, c. Autumn 1872 | |
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| A Visit to Denver, c. October 1873 | |
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| Double Perils of Frontier Women, c. 1873 | |
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| A Buffalo Hunter Calculates His Earnings, c. 1874 | |
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| "Doctoring" in the Seventh Cavalry, July 21, 1874 | |
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| Capturing Wild Mustangs, c. September 1875 | |
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| Searching for "Stone Bones," c. Autumn 1875 | |
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| The Fight on the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876 | |
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| The Spoils of War, June 26, 1876 | |
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| The Murder of Wild Bill Hickok, August 2, 1876 | |
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| The Great Northfield Raid, September 7, 1876 | |
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| Two Hundred Shots in Four Minutes, c. October 1876 | |
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| A Walk before Breakfast, c. 1877 | |
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| The Death of Crazy Horse, c. September 1877 | |
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| "I Will Fight No More Forever," October 5, 1877 | |
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| Geronimo Makes Demands, c. Spring 1878 | |
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| Girl-Stealing, c. Autumn 1878 | |
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| Christmastime at Fort Dodge, December 24, 1878 | |
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| Enforcement of Civil Rights Laws, c. 1879 | |
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| A Navaho Grandmother's Medicine, c. 1879 | |
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| Night Tranquility at Fort Elliott, c. 1879 | |
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| "Burro Punching" in the San Juans, c. 1879 | |
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| Racing with Silvertips, c. 1880 | |
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| An "Almost Hung" Cowboy Is Jittery, c. Summer 1880 | |
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| The Kid Died with His Boots Off, July 13, 1881 | |
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| Making Headlines at the O.K. Corral, October 26, 1881 | |
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| Celebrating Reaching Womanhood on the Run, c. April 1882 | |
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| The Killing of Jesse James, April 4, 1882 | |
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| Tales of Boots and the Wiles of Women, c. 1882 | |
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| The Hazards of Teaching on the Rio Penasco, c. 1882 | |
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| The Death Sentence of Alfred Packer, April 13, 1883 | |
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| Finding a Small Indian Mummy, c. Summer 1884 | |
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| Advice to the Girls of Chillicothe, c. 1885 | |
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| Winter Weather, c. 1887 | |
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| Adios to the Coyote Kid, c. 1888 | |
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| Practicing with the Bow, c. 1889 | |
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| A Priest Makes a Sick Call, c. April 1890 | |
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| The Death of Sitting Bull, December 16, 1890 | |
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| The End of a Dream, December 29, 1890 | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Author | |