Eyewitness to the Old West : First Accounts of Exploration, Adventure, and Peril Book

	Illustrations	xv
	Preface	xvii
	Foreword	xxi
1	Living among the Indians, c. 1531	1
2	Coronado Makes an Impression, c. December 1540	4
3	Explorers Draw Blood, July 27, 1806	7
4	The Pawnees Choose a Flag, September 29, 1806	11
5	Living Off of Paradise, c. April 1810	13
6	Encounter with Indians, May 10, 1810	16
7	Rambling through an Indian Village, June 13, 1811	18
8	"I Heard My Skull Brake," November 13, 1821	20
9	An Artist's Description of a Sioux Home, c. Summer 1832	24
10	"Creasing" a Wild Horse, c. 1832	28
11	The Effect of a Meteor Shower on the Crows, c. October 1832	30
12	Suffering in a "Desolate Wilderness," c. February 1833	34
13	A Grave for a Trapper, c. September 1833	37
14	The Power of a Pawnee Bow, May 22, 1834	41
15	Getting Acquainted with a Grizzly, August 20, 1834	42
16	Why She Ran Away, June 10, 1835	44
17	A Buffalo Dance, July 29, 1835	46
18	Surrounded at the Alamo, February 23, 1836	48
19	Captured by Comanches, April 4, 1836	51
20	Christmas Frolicking at Fort Union, c. 1838	54
21	The Yearly Rendezvous, c. July 1839	56
22	Walks-Galloping-On Falls from Grace, c. 1840	60
23	A Flood's Aftermath, c. Summer 1846	62
24	Birthing at Bent's Fort, July 31, 1846	64
25	We're Taking Your Country, August 15, 1846	66
26	A Funeral in Santa Fe, c. August 1846	69
27	The Power of the Black-Robes, September 12, 1846	71
28	Night Sounds of an Oglala Village, c. 1846	73
29	A Blizzard in South Park, c. Winter 1847	76
30	"You Don't [K]now What Trubel Is Yet," May 16, 1847	79
31	Hanging Mexican Murderers, c. Spring 1847	85
32	A Scout's Experience Saves Lives, c. June 1848	88
33	The Painted Ladies of Santa Fe, c. Summer 1848	92
34	Southwestern Mirages, September 1, 1848	94
35	The Disaster of Fremont's Fourth Expedition, February 10, 1849	96
36	Being Apprehensive around Apache Warriors, c. February 1849	100
37	Unexpected Party Guests, July 4, 1849	104
38	A Gift for a Gift, c. Summer 1849	106
39	Inability to Save Mrs. White, c. October 1849	108
40	Business Dealings in San Francisco, c. January 1850	112
41	Justifying Stealing a Gold Claim, c. January 1850	115
42	Captive Girls Brought into an Indian Village, March 21, 1851	117
43	Fighting Comanches on the Santa Fe Trail, May 21, 1853	120
44	Attending a Fandango, September 29, 1853	123
45	A Bride's Possessions, c. May 1854	126
46	"Day and Night Cannot Dwell Together," c. December 1854	128
47	Wanting to Minister to Another Woman, August 31, 1855	132
48	Wilderness First-Aid, c. 1855	134
49	Report on the Mormon Handcart Company, November 2, 1856	136
50	Provisions for Crossing the Plains, c. 1859	140
51	Overland by Stagecoach, October 10, 1858	144
52	Scalping Comanche Warriors, c. 1859	147
53	Burial at Mountain Meadows, May 6, 1859	150
54	A New Home at Gold Hill, c. July 1860	153
55	A Mysterious Corpse, c. 1860	156
56	Suspicious Shooting of an Officer, c. October 1860	158
57	Dissolution of a Partnership, c. Winter 1860	160
58	The Longest Pony Express Ride, c. May 1861	163
59	"Everything Went Off Quietly," December 24, 1862	166
60	Beans, Anyone? c. 1863	171
61	The Greatest of Wrongs, c. 1863	175
62	Inflation Comes to the Frontier, c. May 1863	179
63	The Vigilante Committee Takes Care of Slade, c. January 1864	181
64	Hand-to-Hand Fighting an Apache Brave, c. August 1864	184
65	Life Is Cheap on the Yellowstone, October 1, 1864	187
66	Testimony on the Sand Creek Massacre, March 14, 1865	191
67	Assault on a Prairie Dog Town, c. Fall 1866	195
68	A Cowboy Wedding, Winter 1866	197
69	The Problem with Disobeying Orders, December 21, 1866	201
70	The Battle Scene of the Fetterman Massacre, December 22, 1866	206
71	Martial Law on the Plains, June 16, 1867	209
72	The Wagon Box Fight, August 1, 1867	212
73	Diary of a Horse Trader, c. 1867	216
74	Letter to a Bereaved Father, August 23, 1867	218
75	The Fight at Beecher Island, September 17, 1868	221
76	Why I Don't Mingle in Society, September 22, 1868	230
77	Just Desserts for a Mule, c. 1868	232
78	The Death of Innocents, November 1868	236
79	A Rose among Thorns, c. November 1868	237
80	The Golden Spike Is Driven, May 10, 1869	239
81	Paying Attention to a Good Pony, c. 1869	241
82	Floating the Grand Canyon, August 14, 1869	243
83	Being Fast on the Draw, c. January 1870	246
84	A Frontier House Beautiful, April 11, 1871	248
85	Concerns of an Officer's Wife, c. Autumn 1872	251
86	Exchanging Courtesies, c. Autumn 1872	254
87	A Visit to Denver, c. October 1873	256
88	Double Perils of Frontier Women, c. 1873	258
89	A Buffalo Hunter Calculates His Earnings, c. 1874	261
90	"Doctoring" in the Seventh Cavalry, July 21, 1874	265
91	Capturing Wild Mustangs, c. September 1875	268
92	Searching for "Stone Bones," c. Autumn 1875	273
93	The Fight on the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876	275
94	The Spoils of War, June 26, 1876	281
95	The Murder of Wild Bill Hickok, August 2, 1876	288
96	The Great Northfield Raid, September 7, 1876	290
97	Two Hundred Shots in Four Minutes, c. October 1876	295
98	A Walk before Breakfast, c. 1877	299
99	The Death of Crazy Horse, c. September 1877	301
100	"I Will Fight No More Forever," October 5, 1877	303
101	Geronimo Makes Demands, c. Spring 1878	306
102	Girl-Stealing, c. Autumn 1878	308
103	Christmastime at Fort Dodge, December 24, 1878	315
104	Enforcement of Civil Rights Laws, c. 1879	318
105	A Navaho Grandmother's Medicine, c. 1879	320
106	Night Tranquility at Fort Elliott, c. 1879	323
107	"Burro Punching" in the San Juans, c. 1879	326
108	Racing with Silvertips, c. 1880	328
109	An "Almost Hung" Cowboy Is Jittery, c. Summer 1880	331
110	The Kid Died with His Boots Off, July 13, 1881	334
111	Making Headlines at the O.K. Corral, October 26, 1881	339
112	Celebrating Reaching Womanhood on the Run, c. April 1882	343
113	The Killing of Jesse James, April 4, 1882	346
114	Tales of Boots and the Wiles of Women, c. 1882	355
115	The Hazards of Teaching on the Rio Penasco, c. 1882	359
116	The Death Sentence of Alfred Packer, April 13, 1883	362
117	Finding a Small Indian Mummy, c. Summer 1884	365
118	Advice to the Girls of Chillicothe, c. 1885	369
119	Winter Weather, c. 1887	371
120	Adios to the Coyote Kid, c. 1888	375
121	Practicing with the Bow, c. 1889	377
122	A Priest Makes a Sick Call, c. April 1890	381
123	The Death of Sitting Bull, December 16, 1890	385
124	The End of a Dream, December 29, 1890	389
	Bibliography	393
	About the Author	401