Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

by Hermann Hagedorn

Chapter XXV. The bad winter — The first blizzard — Destruction of the cattle — The spring flood — The boneyard. [429]

Chapter XXVI. Roosevelt's losses — Morrill vs. Myers — Roosevelt takes a hand — A country of ruins — New schemes of the Marquis — The fading of Medora. [440]

Chapter XXVII. Bill Jones — Old friends — Seth Bullock — Death of the Marquis — Roosevelt's progress — Return as Governor — Medora celebrates — The "cowboy bunch" — Return as President — Death of Bill Jones — The Bad Lands to-day. [453]

Appendix. [479]

Index. [484]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

• Theodore Roosevelt on the Round-up, 1885
  Photograph by Ingersoll, Buffalo, Minnesota [Frontispiece]
• Maltese Cross Ranch-House [16]
• View from the Door of the Ranch-House [16]
• The Prairie at the Edge of the Bad Lands
  Photograph by Holmboe, Bismarck, N. D. [32]
• "Broken Country"
  Photograph by Holmboe [32]
• Roosevelt in 1883 [48]
• Medora in the Winter of 1883-84 [48]
• "Dutch Wannigan" and Frank O'Donald [64]
• Scene of the Killing of Riley Luffsey [64]
• Antoine de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Mores
  By courtesy of L. A. Huffman, Miles City, Montana [76]
• Sylvane Ferris [92]
• A. W. Merrifield [92]
• The Maltese Cross Ranch-House as it was when Roosevelt lived in it
  Photograph by C. R. Greer, Hamilton, Ohio [92]
• The Ford of the Little Missouri near the Maltese Cross [108]
• A. T. Packard [130]
• Office of the "Bad Lands Cowboy" [130]
• The Little Missouri just above Elkhorn [150]
• Elkhorn Bottom [164]
• A Group of Bad Lands Citizens [176]
• Roosevelt's Brands
  From the Stockgrowers Journal, Miles City [190]
• Fantastic Formation at Medicine Buttes [202]
• Medicine Buttes [202]
• Poster of the Marquis de Mores's Deadwood Stage-Line
  By courtesy of the North Dakota Historical Society [212]
• Theodore Roosevelt (1884) [236]
• Elkhorn Ranch Buildings from the River
  Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt [252]
• Gregor Lang [262]
• Mrs. Lang [262]
• The Maltese Cross "Outfit" [276]
• The Maltese Cross "Chuck-Wagon" [276]
• The Scene of the Stampede [296]
• Elkhorn Ranch-House
  Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt [310]
• Site of Elkhorn (1919) [310]
• Hell-Roaring Bill Jones [320]
• Bill Williams's Saloon (1919) [320]
• Hotel de Mores [332]
• The Abattoir of the Marquis de Mores [332]
• The Bad Lands near Medora [346]
• Joseph A. Ferris [360]
• Joe Ferris's Store [360]
• Wilmot Dow and Theodore Roosevelt (1886) [370]
• The Piazza at Elkhorn
  Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt [370]
• Dow and Sewall in the Boat
  Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt [384]
• Medora in 1919 [402]
• Ferris and Merrifield on the Ruins of the Shack at Elkhorn [424]
• Corrals at Elkhorn
  Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt [424]
• George Myers [442]
• The Little Missouri at Elkhorn [442]
• Lincoln Lang [456]
• William T. Dantz [456]
• Margaret Roberts [456]
• "Dutch Wannigan" [456]
• Joe and Sylvane Ferris and Merrifield (1919) [472]
• Rough Riders Hotel [472]

Photographs of Bad Lands scenes, unless otherwise indicated, were made by the author.

The end-paper map is from a drawing made for the book by Lincoln A. Lang. The town of Mingusville is indicated on it under its present name—Wibaux.[Back to Contents]

INTRODUCTION.