-- Nitch comes
to dine ..................................................... 248

Chapter XVI. Cattle torture -- Trailing cattle --
Roosevelt's horsemanship -- Gentling the Devil -- The spring
round-up -- The first encampment -- The day's work --
Diversions -- Profanity -- "Fight or be friends" ............ 266

Chapter XVII. The "mean" horse -- Ben Butler -- Dr. Stickney
-- Dinner with Mrs. Cummins -- The stampede -- Roping an
earl's son -- A letter to Lodge -- Sylvane's adventure --
Law ......................................................... 286

Chapter XVIII. Sewall's skepticism -- Interview at St. Paul
-- The womenfolks -- The Elkhorn "Outfit" -- The Wadsworths'
dog ......................................................... 305

Chapter XIX. Medora -- "Styles in the Bad Lands" -- The
coming of law -- The preachers -- Packard's parson -- Johnny
O'Hara ...................................................... 318

Chapter XX. De Mores the undaunted -- Genealogy of the
Marquis -- Roosevelt and the Marquis -- Hostility -- The
first clash -- Indictment of the Marquis -- The Marquis's
trial -- The Marquis sees red -- Peace ...................... 331

Chapter XXI. Red man and white -- Roosevelt's adventure -- Good
Indian, dead Indian -- Prairie fires -- Sewall delivers a
lecture -- The testing of Mrs. Joe -- Mrs. Joe takes hold ... 350

Chapter XXII. The theft of the boat -- Redhead Finnegan --
Preparations for pursuit -- Departure -- "Hands up!" --
Capture of the thieves -- Marooned -- Cross country to jail
-- Arrival in Dickinson -- "The only damn fool" ............. 365

Chapter XXIII. Medora's first election -- The celebration --
Miles City meeting -- Roosevelt's cattle prospects -- "His
upper lip is stiff" -- Completing "Benton" -- The summer of
1886 -- Influence over cowboys -- "A Big Day" -- Oratory --
Roosevelt on Americanism -- "You will be President" ......... 387

Chapter XXIV. A troop of Rough Riders -- Premonitions of
trouble -- The hold-up -- The Coeur d'Alenes -- Hunting
white goats -- John Willis -- Elkhorn breaks up -- Facing
east ........................................................ 412

Chapter XXV. The bad winter -- The first blizzard --
Destruction of the cattle -- The spring flood -- The
boneyard ..................................