rge Myers --
Mrs. Maddox -- The Maltese Cross -- On the round-up --
"Hasten forward quickly there!" -- Trying out the tenderfoot
-- A letter to "Bamie" -- The emerald biscuits ............... 89

Chapter VI. The neighbors -- Mrs. Roberts -- Hell-Roaring
Bill Jones -- A good man for "sassing" -- The master of
Medora -- The Marquis's stage-line -- The road to Deadwood
-- The Marquis finds a manager .............................. 108

Chapter VII. The gayety of Medora -- Holocaust -- Influence
of the cowboy -- Moulding public opinion -- The "Bastile" --
The mass meeting -- The thieves -- The underground railway
-- Helplessness of the righteous -- Granville Stuart -- The
three argonauts ............................................. 123

Chapter VIII. The new ranch -- The bully at Mingusville --
The end of the bully -- Dakota discovers Roosevelt --
Stuart's vigilantes -- Sewall and Dow -- Mrs. Lang -- Sewall
speaks his mind -- Enter the Marquis ........................ 148

Chapter IX. "Dutch Wannigan" -- Political sirens -- "Able to
face anything" .............................................. 167

Chapter X. The start for the Big Horns -- Roosevelt writes
home -- A letter to Lodge -- Indians -- Camp in the
mountains -- Roosevelt gets his bear ........................ 175

Chapter XI. Rumblings from the Marquis -- The "stranglers"
-- The band of "Flopping Bill" -- Fifteen marked men --
Maunders the discreet -- Sewall receives callers ............ 189

Chapter XII. "Medicine Buttes" -- Roosevelt returns to Elkhorn
-- Maunders threatens Roosevelt -- Packard's stage-line --
The dress rehearsal -- Another bubble bursts ................ 202

Chapter XIII. Bleak camping -- Roosevelt "starts a reform"
-- The deputy marshal -- Winter activities -- Breaking
broncos -- A tenderfoot holds his own -- Wild country --
Mountain sheep -- The stockmen's association ................ 215

Chapter XIV. Winter misery -- Return to Medora -- Illness
and recovery -- Mingusville -- "He's drunk and on the shoot"
-- The seizure of Bill ...................................... 235

Chapter XV. The spring of 1885 -- Swimming the Little
Missouri -- Ranching companions -- Golden expectations --
The boss of the Maltese Cross -- The buttermilk --
Hospitality at Yule -- Lang's love of debate