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| Robert Vaughn, | [6] |
| Leaving Home, | [19] |
| My First View of the Rockies, | [28] |
| An Indian Grave, | [31] |
| In the Rockies, | [32] |
| Nature’s Grand Masonry Work, | [33] |
| Indian War Dance, | [42] |
| A Prairie Schooner Crossing the Plains, | [59] |
| A Scene in the City of Helena, | [61] |
| Great Falls, Montana, | [78] |
| Copper Smelter at Great Falls, | [80] |
| Lewis and Clark Meeting the Mandan Indians, | [81] |
| A Group of Pioneers, in front of Old Court House, Helena, | [85] |
| Mrs. James Blood (a Piegan woman), | [111] |
| Freighting in the Early Days, | [115] |
| Indians Hunting Buffalo, | [126] |
| Wolf Voice (Gros Ventres), | [139] |
| The Piegans Laying their Plans to Steal Horses from the Crows, | [143] |
| Going Home with the Stolen Horses, | [145] |
| Father De Smet, | [149] |
| Little Plume, (Piegan Chief), | [153] |
| Alone in the Rockies, | [166] |
| The Mule and Mountain Howitzer, | [195] |
| Indians with Travois, | [197] |
| “[Then],” Buffaloes; “[Now],” Cattle, | [199] |
| “[Then],” Deer; “[Now],” Sheep, | [200] |
| Rev. W. W. Van Orsdel, | [217] |
| A Mountaineer in his Buckskin Sunday Suit, | [226] |
| Indian Camp, | [246] |
| General George Crook, | [299] |
| General George A. Custer, | [305] |
| Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), | [309] |
| Rain-in-the-face (Sioux War Chief), | [323] |
| A Crow Scout (winter costume), | [325] |
| General Sherman, | [331] |
| General Miles, | [362] |
| Chief Joseph (Nez Perces), | [363] |
| Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, | [368] |
| Sitting Bull (Sioux Chief), | [373] |
| Agency Indians having their pictures taken, | [387] |
| Cree Manuscript, | [390] |
| Mo-See-Ma-Ma-Mos (Young Boy), a Cree Indian, | [391] |
| Cree Alphabet, | [392] |
| Little Bear (Cree Chief), | [393] |
| Roping a Steer to Examine the Brand, | [403] |
| St. Ignatius Mission Stock Brand, | [404] |
| Pioneer Cattle Company’s Brand, | [404] |
| The Roundup—Turning Out in the Morning, | [406] |
| First Attempt at Roping, | [408] |
| Lake McDonald, | [412] |
| In the Rockies on the Great Northern Railway, | [414] |
| Gate of the Mountains, Montana Central Ry., | [420] |
| Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park, | [428] |
| Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park, | [432] |
| Castle Geyser, Cone and Diana’s Pool, Yellowstone Park, | [433] |
| Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, | [435] |
| Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, | [438] |
| Quartz Mining at Niehart, Montana, | [456] |
Then and Now;
Or,
Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies.
FROM HOME TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
I was born in Wales June 5, 1836, and was reared on a farm until I was nineteen years old. My parents’ names were Edward and Elizabeth Vaughan. There were six children—Jane, Hugh, Robert, Edward, John and Mary. Edward lives in the old home at the present time. His address is: “Dugoed Bach, Dinas Mowddwy, Mereoneth Sheir, G. B.”
My parents were of good family; by that I mean they and their ancestors were good Christian people, father and mother were members of the Episcopal Church. Father was a warden as long as I can remember. Mother was my only teacher. She taught me to obey, to tell the truth, to be kind, to respect others, and above all to fear God.
I left home when I was between nineteen and twenty. At this time I could speak but the Welsh language. I had a great desire to learn to acquire English; therefore I went to Liverpool, where sister Jane lived. I secured employment from the Hon. Benjamin Haywood Jones to work in a flower garden at his beautiful home on the West Derby Road. He was a rich banker in the city. I remained there over a year. Brother Hugh had gone to America a year before I left home, locating near Rome, N. Y. In the fall of 1858, instead of going home as I intended, I concluded that it would be a good idea for me to go to America and see my brother; then return in four or five months. So, without the knowledge of my parents, I took passage on board a steamship named the “Vigo” bound for New York. I was on the ocean twelve days and a half. As soon as I landed I wrote home and stated what I had done, and that I would be back home in four or five months, and at that time it was my honest intention to do so. From New York City I went to my brother’s, and stayed with him about three months; then I went to Palmyra, Ohio, to see Aunt Ann, my father’s sister. I was right at home now, and my father was satisfied since I was in the care of his sister. I was there over a year, going thence to Youngstown, Ohio, where I worked for Joshua Davies on a farm, and in the coal mines. From here I proceeded to McLean county, Illinois, where my brother had been for two years. I farmed with him one summer, then I went to Fairbury, Livingston county, and mined coal until 1864. During all this time I wrote home regularly and received letters in return. Instead of going home I was continually getting further from it. Somehow I could not resist the desire of venturing into the unsettled regions of the West. I kept drifting further and further until I found myself in the heart of the Rocky mountains, six thousand miles from home.
