.................. 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 ....................................................... 477

Index .......................................................... 483

ILLUSTRATIONS

Theodore Roosevelt on the Round-up, 1885 .......... _Frontispiece_
Photograph by Ingersoll, Buffalo, Minnesota.

Maltese Cross Ranch-House ..................................... 16

View from the Door of the Ranch-House ......................... 16

The Prairie at the Edge of the Bad Lands ...................... 32
Photograph by Holmboe, Bismarck, N. D.

"Broken Country" .............................................. 32
Photograph by Holmboe.

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 ...................... 76
By courtesy of L. A. Huffman, Miles City, Montana.

Sylvane Ferris ................................................ 92

A. W. Merrifield .............................................. 92

The Maltese Cross Ranch-House as it was when Roosevelt lived
in it ....................................................... 92
Photograph by C. R. Greer, Hamilton, Ohio.

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 ........................................