The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to

The Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned it's three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed as among the very best in the American Trail series The Bloody Bozeman

1862

Before the Bozeman Trail

3

(5)

The Footloose Ones

8

(6)

The Year Things Changed

14

(11)

1863

The Yellowstone Expedition

25

(2)

The Road-Finders

27

(1)

Stuart Meets the Crows

28

(6)

The Missing Seven Meet Trouble

34

(2)

Death and the Stuart Party

36

(8)

``I Have Found a Scad!''

44

(2)

The Survivors Sight Civilization

46

(2)

The Perils of Domesticity

48

(1)

Jacobs and Bozeman Meet Hostiles

49

(2)

The Way to the Gold Fields

51

(3)

The First Conducted Tour

54

(4)

Sam Word's Story

58

(12)

The Long Road, After All

70

(5)

The Chief Justice Was Lost

75

(5)

The Widow's Might

80

(2)

Canny Trader Toponce

82

(5)

Little Mollie Sheehan

87

(3)

The Road Agents' Downfall

90

(7)

1864

The Rage of Decent Men

97

(3)

The Vigilantes' One Mistake

100

(3)

A Child's-Eye View of Doom

103

(3)

Montana Enters History

106

(3)

Jim Bridger Breaks a New Trail

109

(3)

More Wagons on Bridger's Road

112

(3)

Up Bridger's Road with Rocky Mountain Bob

115

(4)

Frank Kirkaldie Needed Hope

119

(6)

Jim Bridger's Second Trip

125

(5)

The Troubles of the Townsend Train

130

(5)

Some Found Gold Fast

135

(3)

South Pass Seemed Safer

138

(5)

Alex Toponce to the Rescue

143

(2)

How Things Were in Alder Gulch

145

(4)

1865

The Hungry Winter

149

(8)

The Camels Are Coming, Hurray! Hurray!

157

(1)

The Bad Luck Boys on Powder River

158

(12)

Meagher of the Sword

170

(2)

To the States by Mackinaw

172

(3)

Kirkaldie Struggles On

175

(6)

Moving the Supply to the Demand

181

(4)

1866

The Sunday People

185

(2)

Two Solutions Collide

187

(11)

The Inspector Comes to Call

198

(3)

Carrington Quells a Mob

201

(2)

Sawyers on an Empty Road

203

(1)

The View from the Ranks

204

(2)

The Crazy Woman Fight

206

(3)

``All Killed and Scalped by Indians''

209

(3)

The Burial Party

212

(3)

The River of Wagons Flows On

215

(5)

He Traveled in Style

220

(2)

The Grummonds Head for Tragedy

222

(4)

The General Insists

226

(2)

Old Glory Waves in the Wilderness

228

(5)

The Fire-Eater Extingished

233

(6)

Nelson Story Defies Everybody

239

(2)

The Eager Beaver

241

(4)

A Soldier Watches Torture

245

(2)

Frustrations of ``The Acting One''

247

(1)

A Tax Collector Looks at Montana

248

(7)

Kirkaldie: Still Hoping

255

(8)

1867

Good-by to Phil Kearny

263

(4)

The Eager Beaver Is Discharged

267

(2)

The Story of the Sergeants

269

(3)

The Harsh Life of a Soldier

272

(3)

The Hayfield Fight

275

(5)

The Wagon Box Flight

280

(6)

One Man's Solution to the Indian Problem

286

(2)

Ordered to Fort C. F. Smith

288

(3)

The Mysterious End of Meagher

291

(7)

The Long, Long Trip Upriver

298

(4)

Still Waiting for Good Fortune

302

(3)

The Empty Road

305

(4)

1868

Red Cloud Wins His War

309

(3)

The Last Days of Fort C. F. Smith

312

(4)

The Last Wagon Train Book

316

(2)

The Patience of Frank Kirkaldie

318

(7)

After 1868

The Bodies of the Slain

325

(1)

What Happened to Some of Them:

326

(13)

John White

326

(1)

The Alder Gulch Discoverers

327

(3)

First Governor of Montana

330

(1)

Wilbur Fisk Sanders

331

(1)

John Owen

332

(1)

Jim Bridger

333

(1)

Nelson Story

333

(1)

Franklin Kirkaldie

334

(2)

The Carringtons

336

(3)

Footnotes

339

(8)

Bibliography

347

(8)

Index

355

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