Introduction

How i came to montana

the texas trail

cowboys and cowpunchers

no tents, no tarps, and damn few slickers

sam bass skips out

a cowboy forever

My father

early days in nebraska

i try to join the pawnees

new boots and a six-shooter

a damn fool kid

Wild days of the seventies

tough, drunk, and sixteen

i shoot a man

an infidel

they couldn't make a farmer of me

Up the trail in '79

the olive outfit

"all horses and men"

shallow graves

rustlers in the nations

my new clothes not appreciated

Sagebrush and mexicans

wet horses

I get little billy

The rattlesnake wins

With john chisum on the pecos

a woman outlaw

Riding the range in '82

buffalo bill upsets a roundup

johnny stringfellow falls off the water wagon

dry drives

i drink alkali and eat coyote

Thorns an inch long

a homesick texan

trail bosses knew their job

lightning and hail

"you can sleep all winter when you get to montana"

On the trail in '83

theft of a pillow

giving the u.p. passengers a thrill

a pious new englander

calamity jane gets us a drink

i repay a debt

Montana at las

an invitation to the parsonage

i get the name of "blue"

death in a hotel room

Another seagoing yankee

i go to work for the n bar

repping in '84

"forty years a cowpuncher"

"the best-looking cowboy on powder river"

I quit the roundup

crossing the yellowstone

"how far is it up no'th?"

i have too much snap

Miles city

buffalo hunters, bullwhackers, and cowboys

the n bar outfit trees the marshal

the girls

knight of the plains

cowboy annie

The mouth of the musselshell

an awful lot of montana history

jenny is scalped

we turn them loose on the musselshell

bad luck still holds

Rocky point

recipe for indian whisky

winter in a cow camp

i pick a wife

fired again

i go to work for the d h s

Granville stuart

the horse-thief clean-up

a wonderful outifit

texas greenhorns

"you take them out of the saddle"

Granville stuart's daughters

the white shirt brigade

i meet charlie russel

"they've been living in heaven for a thousand years"

a cheyenne girl

Scraps of paper

the heroic cheyennes

dull knife and little wolf

too excited to shoot straight

little wolf wins through

Cheyenne outbreak of '84

"we are even"

in front of a tepee

pine is my indian

"C Co 7 Cav"

nobody will ever see it again

The hard winter

pike landusky

sixty below

"fair, fair, with golden hair"

"you smell like an old indian"

a frozen wilderness

deep snow and indian whisky

spring at last

My reform

i say a few words

true love and troubles

a tenderfoot nuisance

a different kind of tenderfoot

the roar of the falls

Cattle as wild as buffalo

near death in a night run

roundups all summer

mary cooks supper for me

we go for a ride

I go to work in a mine

saving money uphill work

i hire as a bullion guard

maried at last

end of the open range

concerning six-shooters

a prehistoric race

Some more about cowboys

independence and pride

loyalty to their outfits

gun fights

how outlaws were made

I never was really bad

cowboys on a spree

"the little black bull come down the mountain"

ogalla song

the yellowstone, the yellowstone