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Twenty-five Years Among the Indians and Buffalo : A Frontier Memoir /
Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
2015.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Early years in kansas: 1861-1867
- Boyhood becomes early manhood: 1861-1867
- Frontier teamster: summer 1867
- Part II. Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry: 1868-1869 winter campaign
- On the march to Camp Supply: October-November 1868
- The balance of forces on the plains: 1868
- Custer at the Washita: November 1868
- Winter march from Camp Supply to Fort Cobb: December 1868
- Arrival at Fort Cobb: December-January 1868-1869
- Winter camp at Fort Cobb: January 1869
- Winter march to the new Fort Sill: January 1869
- Fort Sill: exploring the Wichita Mountains: January-February 1869
- Fort Sill: Indian legends: January-February 1869
- Fort Sill: a soldier's discontents: January-February 1869
- March from Fort Sill to Fort Hays: February-March 1869
- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: joining Custer's command: February-March 1869
- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: Custer pursues Medicine Arrow: February-March 1869
- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: Custer declines to attack: February-March 1869
- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: white captives released: troops eat their mules: March-April 1868
- Mustered out: following the family westward: March-April 1868
- Homesteading in Jewell County: May 1869
- Part III. Frontier patrols with the Kansas State Militia: 1869-1870
- Company D patrols north central Kansas: May-October 1869
- Contacts with settlers and Kansas Geological Survey: May-October 1869
- My first buffalo kill: fall 1869
- Discharged from the militia and trapping beaver: November 1869
- Hunting and trapping forays: winter 1869-1870
- Part IV. Jewell City beginnings: 1870
- The Buffalo Militia and Fort Jewell: spring 1870
- Jewell City celebrates the Fourth of July: May-July 1870
- Organizing Jewell County: July-September 1870
- Part V. Settling Smith County: 1870-1872
- Locating townsites for Gaylord and Cedarville: September 1870
- The first building in Gaylord: 1871
- Organizing Smith County: fall-spring 1871-1872
- Part VI. Following the frontier west to Decatur County: 1872-1873
- Exploring Decatur County: fall/winter 1872-1873
- Homesteading in Decatur County: winter-fall 1873
- Part VII. Hunting and trapping adventures on the great plains: 1873-1874
- An Omaha Indian buffalo hunt in northwestern Kansas: October 1873
- On the range for buffalo, beaver, otter, and wolves: October-November 1873
- More hunting adventures: November-December 1873
- Buffalo camp on the Republican River: December 1873
- Beaver trapping tactics: January-March 1874
- Hunting and trapping on Big Timber Creek: March-April 1874
- Hunting buffalo on the State Line Trail: April 1874
- A prairie storm scatters the horses: April 1874
- Two Lance's Lakotas visit the camp: May 1874
- Buffalo hunting on the Republican and Big Timber: June-August 1874
- A friendly parting of ways: August-October 1874
- A moonlight hunt on the Republican: October 1874
- Buffalo camp on the north fork of the Republican: October 1874
- Part VIII. Life with the Lakota: 1874-1875
- A visit from Sitting Bull and Big Horse: November-December 1874
- Lakota neighbors on the Republican: December 1874
- Lessons in tribal justice: January 1875
- Storms in eastern Colorado: January 1875
- Taking hides to Julesburg, Colorado: February 1875
- Accused of stealing Indian ponies: March 1875
- Hired to recover stolen horses: March-April 1875
- Cheyenne massacre on the middle fork of the Sappa
- Part IX. On the trail of horse thieves: 1875
- Captured by horse thieves: June 1875
- Hunting down the outlaws: summer 1875
- The fate of the horse thieves: fall 1875
- Part X. Two years as a cowboy: 1876-1878
- An introduction to cattle herding: spring 1876
- Herding for High and Mayfield and the Adair brothers: April-July 1876
- Riding for Quinlan and Montgomery and Elwin Webber: summer-fall 1876
- A big roundup on the Smoky Hill River: 1878
- Driving a herd on the Great Texas Cattle Trail: July 1878
- Giving lessons to greenhorns: August 1878
- Headed home to a crisis: August-September 1878
- Part XI. Cavalry messenger and scout: 1878
- In pursuit of northern Cheyenne bands: September-November 1878.