State Librarian.

Topeka, Kansas, March 1, 1898.

CONTENTS.

Page
[General Forsythe at the Arrickaree]1
[El Solitario, the Hermit Priest of the Old Santa Fé Trail]24
[Medicine Bluff]45
[A Race for Life: An Incident of the Indian War of 1864]58
[The Tragedy at Twin Mounds: An Incident of theIndian War of 1866-'67]96
[Wal. Henderson]129
[Kit Carson's Pawnee Rock Story]151
[Sheridan's Roost]170
[The Passing of the Buffalo]179
[Judge Lynch's Court at Whooping Hollow]192
[The Wooing of Ah-key-nes-tou]240
[Kit Carson's "First Indian"]256
[Did General Custer Commit Suicide?]270

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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[General Forsythe]1
[The Charge]13
[The Hermit Priest]24
[Little Beaver]45
[Kicking Bird]58
[Susie Réaume]96
[Sitting Bull, Crow Eagle, and Buffalo Bill]101
[Sa-tan-ta]104
[The Mirage]119
[Wal. Henderson]130
[O-ton-son-e-var]163
[Pacer's Son—Chief of all the Apaches]166
[General Sheridan]170
[Catching Wild Turkeys in Gen. Sheridan's Camp]178
[Wolves Attacking a Buffalo]191
[A Lynching Scene]238
[Mandan Chief]240
[Mandan Canoe]246
[Mandan Village]248
[Kit Carson]256
[Train at Pawnee Rock]266
[General Custer]270
[Little River]273
[Sitting Bull]277