Warpath and Bivouac: Or the Conquest of the Sioux
, by Finerty, John F.
- ISBN: 9781582181950 | 1582181950
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/1/2000
Written in 1890, War-Path and Bivouac is a narrative of stirring personal experiences in the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expeditions of 1876. Although the author, John Finerty was in the field as War Correspondent for the Chicago "Times", during battle, on the march and in bivouac he was an active member of the 3rd Calvary. His purpose for writing these memoirs was to enlighten the reader as to the adventures, hardships, heroes, and horrors of our last great Indian wars, including the custer Massacre, defeat of Crazy Horse and death of Sitting Bull.
| The Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition | |
| Bound for the Plains | |
| Assignment to Duty | |
| Making the Start | |
| Interview with W. F. Storey | |
| His Peculiar Manner | |
| Letters from General Sheridan | |
| "Westward Ho!" | |
| Omaha | |
| Interview with General Crook | |
| His Advice | |
| Sidney Station | |
| The Crowd at the Depot | |
| A Military "Character" | |
| Cheyenne in '76 | |
| Fort D. A. Russell | |
| A Ludicrous Accident | |
| Orders to Move | |
| General Reynolds | |
| "Never Trust a Horse or an Indian," etc. | |
| The Black Hills Fever | |
| Causes of the Indian Trouble | |
| Wars of the Sioux and Crows | |
| Rush of Gold Hunters to "The Hills" | |
| Military Interference | |
| Wagons Burned | |
| Murders by Indians and Brigands | |
| Stage Coaches Attacked | |
| Perils of Prospectors | |
| The Invincible White Man carries his Point, etc. | |
| The March on the Platte | |
| First Day Out | |
| Halt at Lodge Pole Creek | |
| Incidents of the Camp | |
| Long and Short Stirrup Straps | |
| Tired Out | |
| Meeting with Lieutenant Schwatka | |
| Junction with Colonel Royall's Column | |
| Chugwater Valley | |
| Blockaded by Rain and Mud | |
| Fort Laramie | |
| Across the Platte | |
| Regular Soldiers in Campaigning Costume | |
| Cavalry on the March "to Glory or the Grave," etc. | |
| On to Fort Fetterman | |
| The Old Utah Immigrant Trail | |
| Savage Scenery | |
| Blistering Heat and Stifling Dust | |
| Dearth of Water | |
| Rough Riding with a Rear Guard | |
| First Glimpse of Fort Fetterman | |
| Perils of the Platte | |
| An Exciting Episode | |
| Cool Bravery of Lieutenant Bubb | |
| General Crook's Hospitality, etc. | |
| Marching on Powder River | |
| On the War-path in Earnest | |
| Scenes on the March | |
| Peculiarities of Mules and Mule Whackers | |
| A God-Forsaken Region | |
| Miserable Camping Grounds | |
| First Look at the Big Horn Range | |
| The Snowy Summits | |
| Pumpkin Buttes | |
| January in the Lap of June | |
| A False Alarm | |
| Tales by the Camp Fires | |
| Lieutenant Bourke Interrupted by Indian Bullets | |
| The Pawnee Sentinel and the Sergeant's Watch | |
| "I Want to go Ho-o-me!" | |
| Powder River | |
| Old Fort Reno | |
| The Soldiers' Cemetery | |
| Victims of the Hostiles | |
| Brave and Humorous Prospectors, etc. | |
| Glimpses of the Big Horn Range | |
| A Morning in "Leafy June" | |
| Diamonds in the Dew Fall | |
| A Glorious Panorama of Nature | |
| Supposed Indian Signal Fires | |
| Crazy Woman's Fork | |
| Strategical Montana Miners | |
| Clear Fork | |
| An Indian "Grave" | |
| Military Vandals | |
| Fort Phil. Kearney | |
| The Fetterman Massacre | |
| Grave of the Gallant Victims | |
| How the Site of the Fort was Selected | |
| The Old Bridger Trail | |
| "Massacre Hill" | |
| Camp on Tongue River | |
| A Burial in the Wilderness, etc. | |
| The First Fusilade | |
| An Indian Voice at Midnight | |
| Mysterious Disappearance of the Owner | |
| Gold Hunters' Delusions | |
| An Evening Call by the Sioux | |
| Our Camp Fired Upon | |
| Flying Bullets | |
| Mills' Battalion Crosses the River | |
| Charging the Bluffs | |
| Retreat of the Savages | |
| Ludicrous Stories | |
| Colonel Mills and his Stove Pipe | |
| In Camp on Goose Creek, etc. | |
| Indians in War Paint | |
| The Scout Gruard | |
| His Eventful History -A Captive Among the Sioux | |
| Arrival of Crow and Snake Indians | |
| Their Wild, Warlike and Picturesque Appearance | |
| Spears, Guns and War Bonnets | |
| Pow-wow with the General | |
| Indian Oratory | |
| Infernal Nocturnal Orgies | |
| Characteristics | |
| An Officer's Love Affair with an Indian Princess, etc. | |
| Scout and Buffalo Hunt | |
| Arming and Feeding Our Indian Allies | |
| The Mules and the Infantry | |
| How the Latter Rose Rapidly in the World | |
| Indians Laugh at the Mishaps of the Walk-a-heaps | |
| The Savages as Horsemen | |
| Preparing for Battle | |
| Composition of the Army | |
| Parking the Wagon Train | |
| Medicine Men and Head Soldiers | |
| Their Morning Harangues | |
| The March on the Rosebud | |
| A Matchless Buffalo Hunt | |
| Indications of an Early Fight | |
| Laggard Allies | |
| Position of War Correspondents in Indian Campaigns, etc. | |
| Battle of the Rosebud | |
| Dawn on the Rosebud | |
| The Indians Finally Move Forward | |
| Bearing of the Soldiers | |
| Down the Valley | |
| The Halt Among the Bluffs | |
| Shots Beyond the Ridge | |
| Indian Allies Make Good Time | |
| "Heap Sioux, Heap Sioux!" | |
| Saddling Up | |
| Infantry Deploy as Skirmishers | |
| Charges of Mills' and Henry's Battalions | |
| The Sioux Fall Back but Keep on Fighting | |
| Fierce Conflict Between our Indians and the Enemy | |
| An Exciting Scene | |
| Rescue of Sergt. Van Moll by the Crow "Humpy" | |
| Colonel Henry Wounded | |
| Mills' March Down the Canon | |
| The Movement Countermanded | |
| He and Major Noyes Defile by Their Left and Fall Upon the Rear of the Sioux | |
| The Latter Break and Run | |
| Royall's Peril | |
| Losses in the Fight | |
| The General Dissatisfied at the Result | |
| How the Correspondents Acted | |
| Treatment of the Wounded | |
| Stuck Full of Arrows | |
| Savage Mutilation | |
| Indians Weeping for Their Slain | |
| An Atrocious Crow Scoundrel | |
| The Retrograde Movement | |
| We Rejoin our Wagon Train, etc. | |
| In the Shadow of the Mountains | |
| Monotony of Camp Life | |
| A Period of Inaction | |
| The Indian Allies go to See their Mothers' People | |
| Light Literature in Camp | |
| Schwatka and Sir John Franklin | |
| A Man in Love with his own Wife | |
| Lieutenant Lawson's Peculiarities | |
| Reflections on Idle Life in the Wilderness | |
| Arrival of Lieutenant Schuyler and Party | |
| News from Terry and Custer | |
| Nearer to the Foothills | |
| Colonel Mills Sees the Smoke of Custer's Battle on June 25 | |
| Supposes it to be a Prairie Fire | |
| Military Men Petulant during Days of Idleness | |
| The Noble Art of "Sitting Down On" Each Other | |
| Capers Cut Before High Heaven | |
| Unromantic-looking Heroes | |
| Rumors of Custer's Disaster | |
| A "Heap of Pony Soldiers" Reported by Indians and Half-Breeds to have been "Wiped Out" | |
| Exploring the Big Horn Mountians, etc. | |
| Across the Snowy Range | |
| A Strong Hunting Party | |
| Noble Scenery of the Big Horn Range | |
| The Eternal Snows and Ever-falling Waters | |
| A Duplicate of the Pass of St. Gothard | |
| Picturesque Lakes and Charming Trout Streams | |
| The Western Slope | |
| Beautiful Nature | |
| Killing the Big Horn Sheep | |
| A Charming Camp | |
| Colonel Mills and the Author Cross the Range | |
| On the Mountain Peak | |
| View of Wind River Valley and the Gray Ball and Big Horn Rivers | |
| "Bring along Your Italy!" | |
| A Few Shots at Mountain Buffalo | |
| The Return to Camp | |
| A New Trail | |
| A Snowstorm in July | |
| Hunting for Gold | |
| No Paying Prospect | |
| Back to Headquarters for the Fourth, etc. | |
| The Sibley Scout-A Close Call | |
| The Author Volunteers to Accompany a Forlorn Hope | |
| Organization of the Scouting Party under Lieut. F. W. Sibley, of the 2d Cavalry | |
| Leaving Camp | |
| Halt at Big Goose Creek | |
| A Mysterious Object | |
| The Movement in the Gloom | |
| On the Montana Immigrant Trail | |
| "The Rising of the Moon" | |
| Marching by Moonlight | |
| A Dead Silence | |
| The Mountains at Night | |
| A Halt in the Early Morning | |
| Bivouacking near the Foe | |
| The March Resumed | |
| The Scouts see a War party of Hostiles | |
| Retreat to the Foot Hills | |
| Our Trail Discovered | |
| Sibley's Remarks | |
| We Retire to the Mountains | |
| The Sioux Hunting Trail | |
| An Unfortunate Halt | |
| The Ride Resumed | |
| Fired upon from the Rocks and Timber | |
| Seeking Shelter in the Woods | |
| Wounded Horses | |
| A Skirmish Line in the Edge of the Forest | |
| The Indian Charge Repulsed | |
| Fighting for our Lives | |
| The Indian Leader Killed | |
| How it Feels to be Looking Death Squarely in the Face | |
| A Prolonged Conflict | |
| The Indians Reinforced | |
| They Occupy the Passes | |
| Gruard and Pourier advise Sibley to Abandon Remaining Horses, and Retreat through the Woods and Rocks in Rear | |
| Sibley's Reluctance | |
| The Scouts Declare it the Only Chance of Escape | |
| Sibley Finally Consents | |
| Beginning of the Retreat | |
| We Ford the Head Waters of Tongue River | |
| Hearing the Sioux Firing Volleys at our late Position | |
| Gruard's Remarks | |
| Toilsome Mountain March | |
| Midnight Halt on Unknown Peak | |
| Terrific Wind and Hail Storm | |
| The March Resumed | |
| A Dash Down a Valley | |
| Scaling an Awful Cliff | |
| A Dive for Water | |
| Sighting Another War Party | |
| Resolve to Retreat no Further | |
| Taking up a Strong Position | |
| Savages Fail to Observe us | |
| Luck on Both Sides | |
| A Welcome Rest | |
| Night March Across the Plains | |
| Fording a Mountain Torrent in Darkness | |
| Two Men Weaken at the Dangerous Crossing | |
| Still more Indians Sighted - Our Exasperation | |
| Soldier Hunters Appear | |
| Surprised at our Appearance | |
| Six Mules in Four Hours | |
| Send in to Camp for Horses | |
| Weakness of Sibley's Men from Toil and Starvation | |
| Arrival in Camp | |
| Our Reception | |
| Congratulations on our Wonderful Escape, etc. | |
| The Custer Massacre | |
| General Crook goes Hunting Again | |
| Official Account of Custer's Disaster | |
| Statement of the Crow Scout, Curly | |
| The only Survivor of Custer's Immediate Command | |
| The Fire of the Sioux was "Like the Snapping of Threads in Tearing a Blanket "Custer Among the Last to Fall | |
| Gall, the Sioux Leader, Confirms Curly's Story | |
| Custer never Crossed the River | |
| How the Companies of Calhoun and Keogh Died in Their Tracks | |
| Custer's Error - Reno and Marshal Grouchy | |
| General Terry's Famous Order to Custer | |
| Desirable to Enclose the Hostiles Between Custer's and Gibbon's Columns | |
| Irresolute Conduct of Major Reno | |
| Division of the Command and March to the Little Big Horn | |
| Rena's Retreat to the Bluffs | |
| Junction with Benteen and MacDougall | |
| Benteen's Statement | |
| First Sight of the Hostiles | |
| "Hurrah! Custer's Luck!" Shouted the Doomed Hero | |
| Custer and Samson | |
| Their Shorn Locks | |
| Horned Horse's Version of the Fight | |
| Captain Clark Pumps the Old Savage | |
| First Appearance of the Troops on the Bluffs | |
| The Indians Rush to Arms | |
| They are Mostly on Foot | |
| The Troops Disappear | |
| The Head of Custer's Column Shows Itself in a Small Ravine | |
| Its Charge Repulsed | |
| Soldiers Swallowed by the Quicksand | |
| A Terrific Fusillade | |
| Soldiers Melt like Snow Before It | |
| They Fall Dead in Heaps | |
| Their Steady Courage | |
| Panic Among Their Horses | |
| They Use their Revolvers | |
| The Worthless Carbines | |
| Practically Disarmed | |
| The Custer Family Wiped Out | |
| Reno's Sorry Plight | |
| The Exultant Savages Exhibit Custer's Guidons | |
| Arrival of Generals Terry and Gibbon | |
| The Soldiers Cheer Them | |
| An Exciting Scene | |
| The Generals Console the Discouraged Troops | |
| Ghastly Scenes on Custer's Battlefield | |
| The Hero's Body Escapes Mutilation | |
| Terry Retires on His Base of Supplies | |
| He Rests at Rosebud Landing until August, etc. | |
| Merritt's Fight on the War Bonnet | |
| Return of the Snakes | |
| Indian Deviltry | |
| Arrival of the Wagon Train | |
| Bad Women and Worse Whisky | |
| A Captain Dismissed in the Field | |
| General Crook's Anger | |
| The Women Arrested and the Whisky Seized | |
| Arrival of Couriers from General Terry | |
| Traveling in the Indian Country, and How it is Done | |
| Waiting for Reinforcements - The 5th Cavalry Unexpectedly Delayed on its March to Join Crook | |
| General Merritt's Brilliant Conduct in Checking the Cheyenne Tribe on War Bonnet Creek | |
| He Drives Them into Red Cloud Agency | |
| The Chief, Yellow Hand, Killed by Buffalo Bill | |
| Thrilling Adventure of a Scout named Kelly | |
| He Goes Alone Through the Wilderness with Dispatches from Crook to Terry | |
| He Gives Some Pointers on How to Make the Trip in Safety | |
| "Buffalo Chip" Arrives from Merritt | |
| Junction With that Officer | |
| Pen Pictures | |
| Merritt, Carr and Buffalo Bill | |
| A Council of War | |
| Conflagration in the Mountains | |
| A Prairie Fire | |
| Headlong Flight of Wild Animals | |
| Buffalo Bill's Opinion of the Campaign, etc. | |
| Marching in Darkness | |
| Down to Bed Rock | |
| The Wagon Train Abandoned | |
| In Light Marching Order | |
| Through Tongue River Canon | |
| Cross March to the Rosebud | |
| Site of the Great Hostile Village | |
| A Fresh Indian Trail | |
| Weird Night March | |
| Intense Darkness | |
| Grewsome Surroundings | |
| A Splendid Illumination | |
| Lurid Grandeur of a Forest Fire in the Wilderness | |
| Halt and Bivouac, etc. | |
| Crook and Terry Meet | |
| Down the Rosebud | |
| Greet Bituminous Coal Deposits | |
| Daring Ride of Captain "Jack" Crawford, the Scout, and Captain Graves, the Montana Miner | |
| A Cheerless Camping Place | |
| Letters from Home | |
| A Cloud of Dust | |
| "Is It Terry? Is It Sitting Bull?" Buffalo Bill Rides Forward to Find Out | |
| Panic of Terry's Crows | |
| Line of Battle Formed Across the Valley | |
| Our Snakes Mistaken for Hostiles, the Cause | |
| Indian Sagacity | |
| Terry and Crook Temporarily Unite Their Forces | |
| The Remnant of the Ill-starred 7th Cavalry | |
| Correspondents with Terry's Column | |
| Back to Tongue River | |
| A Ghastly Discovery | |
| The Sioux Scalping Knife | |
| Drenched to the Bone | |
| Off for the Lower Powder River | |
| Excellent Infantry | |
| Exhaustion of the March | |
| Pitiful Examples | |
| In Camp on the Yellowstone | |
| A Steamboat and a Colored Woman | |
| Humors of the Situation, etc. | |
| Under a Deluge | |
| Sleeping in "Everlasting Wet" | |
| A Senseless Change of Camp | |
| Vivid Lightning | |
| Awful Thunder | |
| Stampeded Mules | |
| Soldiers Chaff Each Other Under the Down-pour | |
| Farewell to the Yellowstone | |
| The Commands Separate | |
| Indians Again Desert Us | |
| Buffalo Bill Goes Down the River | |
| So do Some Correspondents | |
| "Ute John" | |
| Following the Trail | |
| Hardships of the Cross March | |
| Irremovable Boots | |
| The Eternal Mud and Water | |
| A Fine Grazing Country | |
| Great Coal Deposits | |
| Burning Coal Beds, etc. | |
| Half-Rations and Horse Meat | |
| On the Little Missouri | |
| Loads of Wild Fruit | |
| An Old Camping Ground | |
| Discomforts of Campaigning on Short Allowance of Food and Clothing | |
| The American Army | |
| Some Tyrannical Shoulder-Straps | |
| Crook Makes a Bold Resolve | |
| "If Necessary We Can Eat Our Horses" | |
| Lieut. Lawson's Disgust | |
| Steam from Wet Human Bodies | |
| Losing Horses by the Score | |
| "Shank's Mare" | |
| Mills' Advance Party | |
| A Country Without Wood | |
| Soldiers, Almost Starved to Death, Kill and Eat Horses | |
| Dining on Roasted Cacti Leaves | |
| "The Curse of Camps" Attacks the Command | |
| Horses Ordered Shot for Food | |
| General Discomfort, etc. | |
| Fighting at Slim Buttes-Awful Scenes | |
| Mills Strikes an Indian Camp and Captures a Pony Herd | |
| Gallant Conduct of Lieutenants Schwatka, Crawford and Von Leutwitz | |
| The Latter Loses a Leg | |
| Crook Goes to the Rescue | |
| Custer's Guidons Recaptured | |
| The Gauntlets of Colonel Keogh | |
| Other Relies of the Battle of the Little Big Horn | |
| Personal Bravery of General Crook | |
| Several Officers Distinguish Themselves in Trying to Dislodge a Party of Intrenched Indians | |
| Pourier Takes a Scalp | |
| A Fire of Hell | |
| The Indian Death Chaunt | |
| Women and Children Surrender | |
| Warriors Fight On | |
| American Horse, Fatally Wounded, Surrenders with Two Young Men | |
| They are Given Quarter | |
| A Revolting Group of Dead | |
| Scalping the Slain | |
| Remarkable Death of Private Wenzel | |
| "Buffalo Chip" Shot Through the Heart | |
| "My God, Boys, I'm Done For!" | |
| A Dead Pappoose | |
| Hungry Soldiers | |
| Crazy Horse Calls Around in the Afternoon | |
| Daring Bravery of the Hostiles | |
| They Attempt to Recapture Their Village | |
| A Picturesque Fight | |
| A Cordon of Fire Around the Valley | |
| A Dashing Indian Leader | |
| Was it Crazy Horse Himself? | |
| The Savages Finally Baffled and Forced to Retreat | |
| A Burial by Night | |
| The March Resumed | |
| Attack Made on the Rear Guard | |
| The Savages Repulsed by a Battalion of the 5th Cavalry, under General Eugene A. Carr, etc. | |
| Marching in the Mud | |
| The Tramp to Clay Ridge | |
| A Peculiary Geological Formation | |
| Distant Profile View of the Black Hills | |
| Mills Again | |
| Sent Forward for Supplies | |
| The Horrible March From Owl Creek to Willow Creek | |
| The Soldiers Straggle Into Camp All Through the Night | |
| Colonel Royall's Grit | |
| Camping in the Dark | |
| The Lowing of the Beef Herd | |
| "Hurrah for Old Crook!" | |
| Quick Butcher Work | |
| Different Styles of Horse Beef | |
| A Cure for Epicureanism | |
| Startling Adventure of Sergeant Van Moll and Corporal Bessie | |
| What Crook Accomplished by His Extraordinary March | |
| The Abandoned Horses | |
| On the Belle Fourche, etc. | |
| Invading the Black Hills | |
| General Sheridan Orders Crook to Meet Him at Fort Laramie | |
| The Command Turned Over to General Merritt | |
| Black Killers Visit the Camp | |
| Black Hills Scenery | |
| Approaching Crook City | |
| The Deadly Frontier Whisky | |
| Deadwood in '76 | |
| A Mountain Municipality | |
| Firing Salutes in the General's Honor | |
| A Public Bath-House | |
| At Night the Entire Population Give Crook "an Ovation" | |
| Deadwood Characters and Characteristics | |
| Gold Dust as Currency, etc. | |
| Closing the Campaign | |
| Hunting for Horse Shoers | |
| Artillery in "The Hills" | |
| Crook as a Pathfinder | |
| Grand Scenery | |
| Harvey's Peak | |
| Hill City | |
| A Stout-Hearted Ranch-Keeper | |
| "Indian Scare and No Gold" | |
| Arrival at Custer City | |
| Capt. "Teddy" Egan | |
| An Infant Prodigy | |
| Sheridan Impatient | |
| A Remount and a Hard, Rough Ride | |
| Crook Tries a Short Cut | |
| A Hunters' Dinner | |
| The South Cheyenne | |
| A Wild Gallop Over the Plains | |
| An Early Morning Halt | |
| Red Cloud in the Distance | |
| The Arrival | |
| A Hard-Looking Crowd | |
| Crook Leaves for Fort Laramie | |
| Military Hospitality | |
| A Night at the Sutler's | |
| Lieutenants McKinney and Clark | |
| A Meeting with Gen. R. S. McKenzie | |
| Back to Civilization, etc. | |
| Defeat of Dull Knife--Death of Crazy Horse | |
| The Winter Campaign | |
| McKenzie's Prediction Fulfilled | |
| Expedition Against the Village of Dull Knife | |
| A Brilliant Victory | |
| Lieut. McKinney Killed | |
| The Cheyennes Badly Broken Up | |
| Their Subsequent Sad Fate | |
| Crazy Horse, the Famous War Chief of the Sioux, Surrenders | |
| He Conspires to Murder General Crook and Escort | |
| His Arrest and Tragical Death | |
| Sitting Bull and Other Hostile Chiefs Remain Obdurate | |
| They Seek Shelter on British Soil | |
| Campaign on the British Line | |
| Beginning of the '79 Expedition | |
| Sioux Raiders Trouble the White Settlers and Friendly Indians in Montana | |
| General Miles Ordered to take the Field | |
| His Career During 1876-7 | |
| His Defeat of Lame Deer | |
| Miles' Battle with Chief Joseph | |
| Battle of Bear's Paw Mountains | |
| Capture of Chief Joseph | |
| Death of Capt. Owen Hale and Lieutenant Biddle | |
| Other Martial Episodes | |
| Sufferings of the Wounded | |
| General Miles' Humane Recommendations | |
| Encamped on the Big Muddy | |
| The Author en route from Bismarck to Old Fort Peck, via the Missouri River | |
| A Dangerous Cargo on Board | |
| Lieutenant Quinton's Command of 100 Recruits for Miles | |
| The Redoubt on the River Bank | |
| Speculations as to the Whereabouts of the Savages | |
| A Friendly Call by Red Stone and the Assiniboines | |
| Scared Hunters | |
| Red Stone and Lieutenant Quinton | |
| Celebrating July Fourth Under Difficulties | |
| Joy of the Recruits, etc. | |
| Miles Arrives at Fort Peck | |
| A Change of Commanders | |
| Ponies for the "Conscripts" | |
| The Mosquito Pest | |
| "Smudging" the Varmints Out | |
| Absurdities of the Service | |
| The American Recruit | |
| An Advance Guard | |
| General Miles Arrives with the Main Body | |
| Old Friends | |
| Reminiscences of '76 | |
| Testy Officers | |
| Rudely Aroused | |
| Indian Generosity | |
| Two Moons and Long Dog | |
| The Fort Custer Battalion | |
| The Whole Command United | |
| General Miles' Reply to Old Necklace | |
| Recruits as Horsemen | |
| The Hotchkiss Guns, etc. | |
| Sitting Bull's Last Fight | |
| The March Toward "The Line" | |
| Signaling by Heloistat | |
| Characteristics of Milk River | |
| Buffalo in Sight | |
| Cheyennes Pursue Fugitive Horsemen | |
| Something about Sitting Bull as a Leader | |
| Black Catfish and the Yanktonnais Delegation | |
| A Frightened Half-breed | |
| A Long Chase and Capture | |
| Philo Clark makes a Forward Movement | |
| He Runs into Sitting Bull's Band on Beaver Creek | |
| Miles Hastens to his Relief | |
| A Sharp Fight | |
| Effect of Rice's Artillery | |
| Retreat of the Sioux | |
| A Retrograde March | |
| Terrible Thunder and Wind Storm | |
| A Singular Phosphorescent Phenomenon | |
| The Wagon Train | |
| Confusion in the Darkness | |
| Mr. Booth and His Pistol | |
| A Wild Scene in General Miles' Tent | |
| A Ghastly Trophy, etc. | |
| On John Bull's Frontier | |
| Fording Milk River | |
| Contrary Horses | |
| How Indians Cross Rivers | |
| Crossing Frenchman's Creek | |
| General Miles' Energy | |
| Gallant Act of Private Dowd | |
| Narrow Escape of Colonel Whistler | |
| Recovering Lost Scalps | |
| Cheyenne Notables | |
| Young Sitting Bull Murdered by the Crows | |
| Old Smoke | |
| Degenerate Assiniboines | |
| Hunting for the British Line | |
| We Find It | |
| In Camp Near the Line | |
| Scouts See Hostiles | |
| Major Walsh, of the Northwestern Police, Arrives in Camp | |
| He Confers with Captain Whelan | |
| Natural Pit falls | |
| General Miles and Major Walsh Confer | |
| A Cold Snap | |
| Stagnation in Camp | |
| Death of Shadow-Comes-Out, etc. | |
| Face to Face with Sitting Bull | |
| The Author Visits the Camp of Sitting Bull with Major Walsh | |
| Medicine Lodge Creek | |
| Millions of Mosquitoes | |
| Fine Grazing Land | |
| Long Dog Grows Restive | |
| His Admiration of Artillery | |
| In Sight of the Hostile Camp | |
| Sioux Come to Meet Us | |
| A Lying Half-breed | |
| A Scalp Dance | |
| A Formidable Turn-out | |
| Indian Costumes | |
| Big Necklace | |
| A Savage Council | |
| The Author as a Suspect | |
| A Deep Circle of Savages in War Paint | |
| First Look at Sitting Bull | |
| His Personal Appearance and Manner | |
| A Group of Famous Warriors | |
| They Hurl Speeches at the Author | |
| He Replies in Kind | |
| Broad Trail and Spotted Eagle | |
| Bad Soup's Sullen Demeanor | |
| Major Walsh's Remarks | |
| Sitting Bull Leaves the Council | |
| A Case of Mistaken Indentity | |
| Sitting Bull as a Horse-breaker | |
| He Explains His Retreat from Milk River | |
| Wailing for the Slain, etc. | |
| Hobnobbing with the Hostiles | |
| Looking at the Teton Village | |
| Immense Array of Tepees | |
| Young Warriors Haughty and Hostile | |
| A Message to Sitting Bull | |
| His Peculiarities | |
| An Immense Pony Herd | |
| A Reminiscence of the Little Big Horn | |
| Arrival of White Eagle | |
| He Calls Upon the Author | |
| An Unfortunate Skirmish | |
| A Sioux Mortally Wounded | |
| White Eagle's Remarks | |
| Remarkable Tenacity of Life | |
| An Old Indian Acquaintance | |
| A Critical Situation | |
| White Eagle Gives a Warning | |
| Danger of Retaliation, etc. | |
| French Half-Breeds--Balaklava | |
| Savages Short of Supplies | |
| About Pretty Squaws | |
| Indians not Christians | |
| Not Half as Dirty as Painted | |
| Trained to Endure Suffering | |
| The Half-breeds | |
| A Peculiar People | |
| Primitive Vehicles | |
| Wooden-wheel Tires | |
| Farewell to the Sioux Chiefs | |
| Back to the Frontier | |
| My Escort | |
| Peculiar Reflections | |
| A Hero of Balaklava | |
| His Story of the Charge of the "Six Hundred" | |
| Nolan's Order | |
| How Cardigan Led | |
| Headlong Rapture of the Charge | |
| A Mad Impulse to Kill | |
| Terrible Sabre Strokes | |
| Right Through the Russian Ranks | |
| The Ride Back Out of "the Jaws of Death" | |
| An Irish Soldier's Humor | |
| An Ungrateful Country | |
| The Homeward Ride | |
| Bivouacking Under the Moon Rays | |
| Captured Half-breeds | |
| Exciting Adventure with the Cheyennes | |
| Back in Miles' Camp, etc. | |
| In the Last Ditch | |
| The Half-breed Camp | |
| A Light-hearted Set of Prisoners | |
| Dancing in the Moonlight | |
| Miles Breaks Camp | |
| The Expedition Scattered | |
| Last View of the Great Northern Bison Herd | |
| Extinction of That Race of Animals | |
| Effect on the Hostile Indians | |
| Captain M--and the Coyotes | |
| Starved Out | |
| Final Surrender of Sitting Bull | |
| The Sioux Conquest Consummated, etc. | |
| Addenda | |
| Deserters and Dog Robbers | |
| About Army Abuses | |
| "Dog Robbers" Very Often Better and Braver Soldiers Than the Fellows Who Insult Them | |
| Captain--'s Instructions to His "Striker": "If Any Man Calls You a 'Dog Robber' You Have my Permission to Knock Him Down" | |
| The Very Satisfactory Result | |
| Causes of Desertion From the Regular Army | |
| Ennui, Inaction and Discontent, Owing to the Stagnation of Peace, Have More to do with It than Anything Else | |
| Private McIntyre's Reply to the Author, When He Was Told to Keep His Place in the Ranks Until the Column. Halted | |
| An Unpremeditated Military Compliment | |
| Characteristics and Qualities of the Different Elements That go to Make up the American Regular Army, etc. | |
| Sandy Forsyth's Famous Fight | |
| Stories by the Camp Fires | |
| A Fighting Parson | |
| His Heroic Conduct at Crazy Woman's Fork, as Told by Colonel Baker | |
| "There is a Time for Praying | |
| There is also a Time for Fighting" | |
| The Chaplain Takes His Choice | |
| He Adopts Muscular Christianity | |
| His Gallant March Through the Indian Lines | |
| He Brings Succor to the Besieged | |
| "Sandy" Forsyth's Famous Fight on an Island Sandbar in the Republican River | |
| How Fifty Brave Frontiersmen "Looked Through the Sights of Their Rifles" | |
| The Outnumbering Force of Indians | |
| A Terrible Situation | |
| Forsyth Twice Wounded | |
| Dr. Movers Mortally Hurt | |
| A Tremendous Fusillade | |
| Undaunted Bravery of Forsyth and His Command | |
| Desperate and Gallant Charge of the Cheyenne Chief Roman Nose and the Flower of His Warriors on Forsyth's Position | |
| They are Bloodily Repulsed and Roman Nose Falls at the Head of His Brave Warriors | |
| Lieutenant Beecher Killed | |
| Seven Days of Awful Privation | |
| Scouts Succeed in Getting Through to Fort Wallace | |
| Arrival of a Rescuing Party Under Colonel Carpenter, etc. | |
| General Crook's Career | |
| His Birthplace and Education | |
| Campaigning against the Indians long before the Civil War | |
| His Career in the Union Army | |
| Conduct at Cedar Creek and Elsewhere | |
| His Promotion | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel of the 23d Regular Infantry | |
| Appointed to Command in Arizona | |
| He Conquers the Apaches | |
| Promoted Brigadier-General in the Regular Army | |
| Appointed to the Department of the Platte | |
| He is Again Victorious | |
| Subsequent Actions | |
| His Sudden and Lamented Death, while Major | |
| General Commanding the Military Division of the Missouri, etc. | |
| General George A. Custer | |
| His Native Place and Admission to West Point | |
| Brilliant Career in the Army of the Potomac | |
| He Leads Sixty Successful Charges | |
| He Captures Innumerable Battle-Flags and Cannon | |
| His Campaigns in Kansas and the Indian Territory | |
| Brilliant Victory over Black Kettle on the Washita | |
| The Tactics of the Little Big Horn Foreshadowed | |
| Death of Major J. A. Elliott, Captain Lewis McLain Hamilton and Several Soldiers | |
| Appendix | |
| Official Reports | |
| Echoes from the Little Big Horn | |
| General Sheridan's Report | |
| Lieutenant De Rudio's Interesting Statement | |
| Extracts from the Journal of one of General Gibbon's Officers | |
| General Crook's Account of Rosebud Fight | |
| List of Killed and Wounded at Rosebud and Slim Buttes | |
| Colonel Poland's Indian Version of the Little Big Horn Disaster | |
| List of the Killed and Wounded in that Conflict | |
| Organization of the Different Military Columns, etc. | |
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