Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FRONTIS
  • DEDICATION.
  • PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.
  • CONTENTS.
  • CHAPTER I.
  • ABSARAKA, HOME OF THE CROWS.
  • CHAPTER II.
  • ABSARAKA DESCRIBED.
  • CHAPTER III.
  • THE NATURAL HISTORY AND CLIMATE OF ABSARAKA.
  • CHAPTER IV.
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE EXPEDITION TO ABSARAKA.
  • CHAPTER V.
  • FROM FORT KEARNEY TO CROSSING OF UNION PACIFIC RAIL-ROAD
  • INCIDENTS OF THE PLATTE RIVER TRAVEL
  • REUNION OF THE OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY
  • CROSSING THE RIDICULOUS PLATTE
  • CHAPTER VI.
  • REMINISCENCES OF RANCHING, AND OLD TIMES ON THE ROUTE FROM LEAVENWORTH TO SEDGEWICK.
  • CHAPTER VII.
  • UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD TO LARAMIE
  • COURT-HOUSE ROCK
  • CHIMNEY ROCK
  • FORTIFICATION ROCK
  • SCOTT'S BLUFFS
  • WONDERFUL FISHING
  • VISIT OF STANDING ELK
  • CHAPTER VIII.
  • FORT LARAMIE COUNCIL OF 1866
  • ITS RESULTS FORESHADOWED
  • THE ABORIGINES IN THE MART OF TRADE
  • HOW THE INDIANS DID AND DID NOT
  • CHAPTER IX.
  • LARAMIE TO RENO
  • CAMP PHISTERER CANON
  • LARAMIE PEAK
  • WILD FLORA
  • PUMPKIN BUTTES
  • CHAPTER X.
  • FORT RENO
  • INDIAN RAID
  • FORT LARAMIE TREATY TESTED
  • FOURTH OF JULY IN ABSARAKA
  • ORGANIZATION OF MOUNTAIN DISTRICT
  • ONWARD MOVEMENT
  • MORE RATTLESNAKES.
  • MERCURY ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN DEGREES ABOVE ZERO
  • WHAT IT DID
  • CHAPTER XI.
  • RECONNOISSANCES
  • INDIAN MESSENGERS
  • WARNINGS
  • LOCATION OF FORT PHILIP KEARNEY
  • CONDUCT OF THE TROOPS, AND ITS CAUSE
  • CHAPTER XII.
  • ARRIVAL OF INDIANS
  • THE CHEYENNES IN COUNCIL
  • BLACK HORSE THE RABBIT THAT JUMPS, RED SLEEVE, DULL KNIFE, AND OTHERS HAVE MUCH TALK AND "HEAP OF SMOKE."
  • CHAPTER XIII.
  • MASSACRE OF LOUIS GAZZOUS' PARTY
  • INDIAN RAID AND GREAT LOSS OF MULES
  • THE CHEYENNES AGAIN
  • FORTY HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE "PEACEABLE TRIBES"
  • THE LARAMIE TREATY INCIDENTALLY TESTED.
  • MASSACRE OF LIEUTENANT DANIELS
  • A FIGHTING PARSON
  • CHAPTER XIV.
  • CONDUCT OF THE CROW INDIANS
  • WHAT BRIDGER AND BECK-WITH SAY
  • CHAPTER XV.
  • VISIT OF INSPECTOR-GENERAL HAZEN
  • REINFORCEMENTS ON THE WAY
  • MOUNTED INFANTRY COMPARED WITH SIOUX LIGHT CAVALRY
  • UNITED STATES MAILS
  • CORRAL SYSTEM
  • TIMBER AND LUMBER SUPPLIED TO ORDER
  • CHAPTER XVI.
  • FORT PHILIP KEARNEY AND SURROUNDINGS
  • A PICNIC
  • ASCENT OF THE MOUNTAINS
  • LAKE SMEDT
  • FINE SCENERY
  • PLAN OF THE FORT
  • CHAPTER XVII.
  • TWO HOLIDAYS
  • OCTOBER INSPECTION AND REVIEW
  • FIRST GARRISON FLAG HOISTED IN ABSARAKA.
  • INCIDENTS OF THE DAY
  • INDIAN RESPONSE TO A NATIONAL SALUTE
  • LOOKING-GLASSES IN ABUNDANCE
  • EVENING LEVEE
  • CHAPTER XVIII.
  • A DAY OF INCIDENTS
  • HOSTILE SIOUX AND FRIENDLY CHEYENNES
  • ARROW ESCAPE OF THE LATTER
  • OUR PICKET MIMICKED
  • MORE MASSACRES
  • CROQUET INTRODUCED INTO ABSARAKA
  • CHAPTER XIX.
  • NIGHT SCENES
  • CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL VISITORS
  • AURORA
  • LUNAR RAINBOW
  • METEORITES
  • INDIANS ALL IN THEIR WAR-PAINT
  • CHAPTER XX.
  • DOMESTIC, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS LIFE, WITH THE EPISODES THEREIN OCCURRING
  • CHAPTER XXI.
  • INDIAN WARFARE.