ILLUSTRATIONS

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Smoking the Pipe of Peace[Frontispiece]
Texas in 1866 and in 1886[19]
Eliza Cooking Under Fire[28]
A Mule Lunching from a Pillow[78]
General Custer as a Cadet[87]
"O Golly! what am dat?"[108]
Measuring an Alligator[125]
General Custer at the Close of the War—Aged 25[168]
"Stand there, cowards, will you, and see an old man robbed?"[188]
General Custer with his Horse Vic, Stag Hounds and Deer Hounds[212]
Kansas in 1866 and Kansas To-day[221]
Conestoga Wagon, or Prairie-Schooner[223]
The Officer's Dress—A New-comer for a Call[239]
A Suspended Equestrienne[246]
General Custer at his Desk in his Library[259]
Gun-stand in General Custer's Library[287]
Trophies of the Chase in General Custer's Library[297]
Whipping Horses to Keep them from Freezing[316]
A Match Buffalo Hunt[341]
Gathering and Counting the Tongues[343]
Supper Given by the Vanquished to the Victors of the Match Buffalo Hunt[345]
A Buffalo Undecided as to an Attack on General Custer[368]
A Buffalo at Bay[377]
The Addled Letter-Carrier[385]
Negroes Form their own Picket-line[389]
An Attack on a Stage-coach[392]