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From Home to the State of Illinois,[17]
Crossing the Plains,[22]
On a Stampede to the Yellowstone,[35]
The Discovery of Alder Creek, the Richest Gold Gulch on the Globe,[39]
The James Stuart Prospecting Party,[46]
From Alder Gulch to Last Chance,[57]
From the Mines to the Farm,[64]
A Letter to My Little Babe,[72]
From the Farm to the City of Great Falls,[77]
Montana Pioneers,[84]
The Dark Side of the Life of the Pioneer,[89]
The Indian Praying,[103]
Indians Stealing my Horses,[106]
The Great Sun River Stampede,[109]
A Trip from Virginia City to the Head of Navigation on the Missouri River in 1866,[113]
My First Buffalo Hunt,[124]
Tom Campbell Running the Gauntlet,[127]
Edward A. Lewis’ Early Days in Montana,[130]
A Brave Piegan War Chief,[141]
Bloody Battles and Tragedies in the Sun River Valley,[147]
Charles Choquette Coming to Montana in 1843,[163]
A Trip to the Twenty-eight Mile Spring Station,[171]
John Largent’s Early Days in Montana,[176]
A Visit to Fort Benton,[188]
John D. Brown, a Narrative of his Early Experiences in the West,[201]
A Pioneer Minister,[216]
An old Letter,[223]
Warren C. Gillette’s Early Experiences in Montana,[229]
A Meal in an Indian Camp,[245]
The First Settlement of What is now Montana,[247]
Montana Then and Now,[266]
A Sample of the Pioneers of Montana,[275]
The Indian,[288]
The Sioux War,[297]
General Sherman’s Letters,[329]
The Nez Perces War,[345]
An English Tribute to the American Scout,[367]
Returning of Sitting Bull from Canada,[370]
The Indian Messiah and the Ghost Dance,[377]
An Indian Legend,[395]
The Roundup,[403]
Traveling “Then” and Traveling “Now,”[410]
Yellowstone National Park,[422]
From the Prospector’s Hole to the Greatest Mining Camp on Earth,[447]