by Jon E. Lewis
cattle
Beef Bonanza 152–70, 196–205, 226, 525
branding 183–4
bulldogging 499–500
castration 184
cattle/sheep feuds 228–32
cutting out 182
drives 161–70
introduction to America 147
mavericks 184
river crossings 165–6
round-ups 181–4
rustling 236, 481, 482
stampedes 164
Texas Longhorn 150, 151
tick fever 151–2
cattle barons 200–1
cattle towns 171–80
Central Pacific 143
Champion, Nathan 239, 240–3, 245–7
Cherokee 23, 25–6, 343, 344
Cherokee Bill 274–5
Cheyenne 359–65, 375, 385, 427, 428
Cheyenne Club 200–1, 204, 226
Chinese 118, 143, 525
Chinook 84
Chiricahua Apache 345, 347, 350, 431–45
Chisholm Trail 157, 523
Chivington, Colonel John 359, 360–1, 362, 363, 365
Christie, Ned 276–7
chuckwagons 162
Clantons 307, 308, 309–10, 311–12, 524
Clark, George Rogers 27–8
Clark, William 52 see also Lewis and Clark expedition
Clay, John 201
Clements, Arch 282
closing of the frontier 459, 525
Clover, Sam T. 239, 241–2
Clum, John P. 262, 432, 433, 446
Cochise 346–7, 348, 350–2, 523
Code of the West 252–6, 259–60
Cody, William F. (Buffalo Bill) 138, 258–9, 384, 495, 496–8, 504, 524
Colorado 119
Colt revolvers 257
Columbus, Christopher 5, 147, 514
Comanche 314, 350, 405–14
Cornstock Lode 119
Concord coach 135
Connor, General Patrick E. 366
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de 6
Cortina, Juan Nepomuceno 279
Coulter, John 42, 52, 518
Courtright, “Longhaired Jim” 297
cowboys
broncbusting 185–6
dress code 149, 191–4
life on the range 186–91, 226–7
life on the trail 161–70
rodeos 494, 498–501
unionization 187–8
violence 172, 175, 178–80, 295
working cattle 181–4
Crazy Horse 343, 374, 376, 416, 422, 425, 428, 524
Cripple Creek 126, 525
Crockett, Davy 71–2
Croghan, George 15
Crook, General George 351, 420–1, 422, 428, 429–30, 440–1, 442, 443, 446
Crow, Walter J. 252, 524
Crow xiii, 57
Cumberland Gap 20, 22
Custer, Colonel George
Armstrong 126, 386–7, 390–1, 395, 396, 400–1, 404, 416, 419, 421, 423, 424, 426, 427, 523
Dalton brothers 290–1, 292, 333, 525
Daly, John 297–8
Dart, Isom 274
Daugherty, Roy 461
Daves, Delmer 509
Davis, Captain Jonathan R. 252
de Onate, Juan 6, 7, 227, 516
de Soto, Hernando 6, 516
de Vaca, Cabeza 5
Delaware 26, 28
Deseret 108, 109
disease 8, 339
Dodge City 159, 172, 174, 304–5, 311
Donner Party 82, 96–102
Doolin, Bill 279, 291, 292, 301, 333, 525–6
dry farming 465–6
Duffield, George 164–5
Dumont, Elenor 330–1
Earp, Morgan 308, 309, 310
Earp, Virgil 306, 308, 309, 310
Earp, Wyatt 303–12, 504, 513, 527
Eastwood, Clint 511–12, 513
Edgar, Henry 120–6
Ellsworth 159, 172, 173, 174, 296
European colonialism 4–11
“Exodusters” 467, 524
Fallam, Robert 10
Farnham, Thomas Jefferson 79
Fetterman Massacre 376–8, 522
Fetterman, William Judd 374, 375
Fink, Mike 129–30, 519
Finley, John 20, 21, 22
firearms 256–9
Colt revolvers 257
Kentucky rifle 13, 256
Springfield rifle 379
Winchester rifle 258–9
Fisher, John King 296–7
flatboats 128
Florida 5, 18, 519
Fonda, Henry 507, 508
Ford, Bob 288–9, 331
Ford, John 507, 509, 510
Forsyth, Colonel George A. 390, 454, 455
Fort Laramie Council (1866) 367–8, 522
Fort Phil Kearny 369, 370–5, 378, 379, 380
Fredonia Revolt (1826) 64–5
Frémont, John 59, 80, 521
Frewen, Moreton 199
frontier spirit xi-xii
fur trade 21, 50–9
gambling 174, 175, 330, 331
Garrett, Pat 217, 218, 220–1, 317, 526
German immigrants 11, 74
Geronimo 3–4, 345, 348, 351–2, 431–5, 437, 439, 440–9, 489, 526
Ghost Dance 451–2, 456
Glover, Ridgeway 369–70
Godfrey, Edward S. 391–403
gold prospecting 112–27, 359, 419, 521, 525
Goodnight, Charles 159–60, 162, 187, 188, 202, 203, 204, 527
Goodnight-Loving Trail 160, 522
Great American Desert 46, 48
Great Appalachian Valley 10, 11
Great Blizzard (1886–7) 223–5
Great Grasshopper Year (1874) 463
Great Plains 462–70
Great Sioux Uprising 353–8
Greenwood, Caleb 59
Gros Ventre 55, 341
Guerin, Elizabeth Jane 189, 331–2
gunfights 252, 254–5
guns see firearms
Hardin, John Wesley 271–3, 315
Harpe, Micajah and Wiley 269
Hart, Pearl 335, 526
Hart, William S. 505, 506
Hastings, Lansford W. 97–8
Hays, Captain John Coffee 314
Haywood, William 327
Hearst, George 119
Henderson, Judge Richard 23, 517
Henderson, Prairie Rose 500–1
Henry, Andrew 55, 56
Hickok, James Butler 157–8, 174, 256–6, 258, 272, 332, 522, 523
highway robbery 138, 264, 268–9
Hodges, Ben 275–6
Hole in the Wall 478, 479
Holladay, Ben 138, 142
Holliday, Doc 304–5, 307–8, 309, 310, 311
Homestead Act (1862) 232, 381, 522
homesteaders 232–3, 463–77
Horn, Tom 245, 274, 318, 489–94
horses 195
horse breaking 185–6
horse stealing 84, 87, 233, 260
introduction to America xiv, 6, 383
saddles, bridles and bits 194
Houston, Sam 65, 66–7, 73, 75
Hudson’s Bay Company 51
Iliff, J. W. 159
immigrants 11–12, 74, 467–8
Indian Territory 261, 340, 343
Indians see Native American Indians
International Workers of the World 327–8, 527
Iroquois 16–17, 26
James, Frank 281, 287, 289, 498
James, Jesse 270, 279, 281–9, 318, 507, 522, 524
James, Will 232
James-Younger gang 283–8, 318, 524
Jamestown 8, 147, 516
Jayhawkers 153
Jefferson, Thomas 33, 34–5, 44, 518
Jeffords, Thomas 351, 432
Jennings, Al and Frank 292–3, 504, 525
Johnson County War 239–44, 245, 504
Johnson, John 133
Joseph, Chief 429, 524
Kaepernick, Bertha 500
keelb
oats 129
Kelley, Hall Jackson 78
Kentucky 20–3, 29, 518
Kentucky rifle 13, 256
Kicking Bear 451, 456
Kilpatrick, Ben 479–80, 526
Kiowa 350, 409
Koch, Peter 131–3
labour wars 319, 327–8, 526–7
law enforcement
Indian police 262–3
lawmen 180, 261–2, 294–302, 304–12
Pinkerton’s Detective Agency 263, 285, 317–28, 484
private police forces 263
rangers 262, 313–17
vigilantism 117, 212, 233–6, 237–8, 239–44, 263–7, 328, 461, 524
lawmen 180, 261–2, 294–302, 304–12
Lederer, John 10, 516
Ledyard, John 34
Lee, Jason 79
Lemmons, Bob 188
Leone, Sergio 511–12
Lewis and Clark expedition 35–43, 518
Lewis, Meriwether see Lewis and Clark expedition
Lillie, Gordon W. (Pawnee Bill) 498
Lincoln County War 211–15, 524
Lisa, Manuel 52–3
Little Big Horn 423–7, 523
Little Crow 354, 355, 356, 357, 522
Little, Frank 328, 527
livestock associations 204
Logan brothers 478–80, 483, 487
Long Drive (1866) 152–4
long hunters 20–1
Long, Major Stephen Harriman 47–8
Long Walk (1864) 349, 522
Longbaugh, Harry (Sundance Kid) 480, 485–7
Longley, William P. 273–4
Louisiana Purchase 33, 518
Love, Nat 500
Loving, Oliver 159–60
lynch-law 237–8, 263–4, 266
Mackenzie, Colonel Ranald 409–10, 413, 428
Mackenzie, Murdo 200
Madsen, Chris 291, 300–1, 302
mail and freight services 134–42
Malone, Washington 150–1
Mandan 38, 339, 499
Mangas Coloradas 346, 347, 348
Manifest Destiny xiii, 77
marshals see lawmen Massai 460
Masterson, Ed 295–6, 524
Masterson, William B. (“Bat”) 257–8, 304, 311, 412
Mather, Dave 296
Maverick Act 236–7
McCabe, Edwin 467
McCoy, Joseph 155–6, 176
McDougal, “Cattle Annie” 333
Medicine Lodge peace talks (1867) 388–9
Mercer, Asa Shinn 244
Mexico 61, 62, 64, 65
Miami 31–2
Miles, General Nelson A. 348, 429, 443, 444, 445, 447, 448, 452, 456, 525
Miller, Alfred Jacob 58–9
Miller, Jim 296, 316–17, 526
miners’ strikes 262, 327, 526
missions 6–7
Mississippi River 45
Missouri River 36
“Molly Maguires” 317, 319
Morco, John 296
Morgan, Middy 189
“Mormon War” 111, 521
Mormons 80, 103–111, 521
Morrison, Marion (John Wayne) 506, 509, 512
Mountain Meadows Massacre 110, 111
Mountain Men 56–7
Mulhall, Lucille 493
Murieta, Joaquin 271
Mussel Slough Shoot-out 252, 524
Nacogdoches 62, 64
Nana 348, 350, 435, 441
Natchez Trace 268
Native American Indians
army scouts 413, 422
in the Civil War 343–4
Ghost Dance 451–2, 456
Indian police 262–3
Indian Wars 31–2, 342–80, 386–445
inter-tribal conflict xiii
outlaws 276–8
prehistory 3–4
reservation system 341
in the War of
Independence 25–8
White-Indian mutual aid 83–4
see also individual tribes e.g. Apache
Nauvoo 80, 104, 105
Navajo 349–50
Newton “General Massacre” 178–9
Nez Perce 428–9
Nickell, Willie 491–4
Nix, Evett Dumas 269–70, 291–2, 299–300, 302
Northwest Ordinance (1787) 29–30, 518
Oakley, Annie 489, 490
Ohio 32, 497
Ohio Valley 15, 18, 19
O.K. Corral gunfight 306, 309–10, 524
Olmstead, Frederick Law 74–5
Oregon 79–80
Oregon Trail 79, 80, 114
Otter-Van Orman wagon train 86–7
outlaw dynasties 289–93
outlaw-heroes 270, 271, 273
outlawry 268–93
overlanders 78–95
Palo Duro 202–3, 413
Parker, Cynthia Ann 314, 406–7
Parker, Judge Isaac 261, 275, 334, 335, 523
Parker, Robert LeRoy (Butch Cassidy) 479–80, 484–6, 487
Parker’s Fort 406
Pawnee 46, 85
Peacemaker (Colt revolver) 257
Pekinpah, Sam 510–11
Pennsylvania 11
Phillips, John 378–9
Pickett, Bill 499–500
Piegan 41–2
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery 44–7, 518
Pike’s Peak 46, 48, 359
Pinkerton’s Detective Agency 263, 285, 317–28, 484
pioneers see overlanders
Plains Indians xiii-xiv, 342, 364, 384–5, 423
Pleasant Valley War 229–31, 525
Plummer, Henry 264, 522
Pontiac Rebellion 18, 20
Pony Express 137–8
Prairie Schooner 81
Proclamation of 1763 (limiting White settlement) 19, 24, 517
prostitution 117, 176–7, 330
Pueblo uprising (1680) 7
Quahadi Comanche 388, 407, 409–13
Quanah Parker 388, 406, 407, 409, 410, 411–12, 413–14, 450
Quick, Flo 332–3
railroads 142–4, 382, 384–5
ranching 196–201
range wars 206, 211–15, 525
Ray, Nick 239, 240
Red Cloud 367, 368, 369, 374, 379–80, 415–16, 419, 420
Red Light districts 174
Reed, James 96, 98, 101
religious migrants 8, 103 see also Mormons
Remington, Frederic 182
Reno brothers 283–4, 318, 501
Reno, Major Marcus 423, 424, 426–7
river traffic 128–34
road agents see highway robbery
Rocky Mountain Fur Company 55–6, 58, 78
rodeos 495, 498–501
Rogers, Major Robert 17, 18
Roman Nose 374, 390, 523
Roosevelt, Theodore 448–9, 501
Rose of the Cimarron 333
Rose, Louis 70–1
Russell, Charles M. 225
Russell, Jane 508
Russell, William H. 136–7
Ruxton, George 56–7
St Vrain, Ceran 60
Salt Lake City 108, 110
San Antonio 66, 67
San Francisco 113, 116–17, 330
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance 263–4
San Jacinto, battle of 73–4
San Juan 6
Sand Creek Massacre 362–4, 510, 522
Santa Anna 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74
Santa Fe 47, 59–60
Santa Fe Trail 60, 519
Santee Sioux 353–7, 522
Satank 389, 409
Satanta 388–9, 408, 409, 411, 413–14
Scioto Company 30–1
Scotch–Irish immigrants 11–12
Seven Years’ War 15–18
Shawnee 23, 26–7, 28, 47
sheep farming 227–32
Sheridan, General Philip H. 390–1, 404, 421
sheriffs see lawmen
Sherman, General William T. 386, 408
Short, Luke 304, 307, 311
Shoshoni 39–40, 86
Shoshoni Mike 460
Sieber, Al 481
silver mining 126, 307
Sioux 38, 342, 353–7, 369–78, 379, 415–27, 428, 451–6, 522
Siringo, Charles 318, 319–27
Sitting Bull 416, 422, 428, 451–3, 497, 524
Slade, Jack 264–5
slavery 72, 118, 315
Slye, Leonard (Roy Rogers) 507
Smith, Jedediah 55, 519
Smith, Joseph 103–4, 105
Smith, Tom 298
sod houses 464–5
Springfield rifle 379
Staked Plains 201–2, 407, 409–10
Starr, Belle 276, 282, 290, 334–5, 525
Starr, Henry 293, 526
steamboats 130–1, 134
stetsons 191–2
Stevens, Jennie “Little Britches” 333–4
Stewart, James 507, 508
stock detectives 236
Stuart, Granville 200, 225, 233–6
Stuenenberg, Frank 327, 526
Sublette brothers 55, 78
Sundance Kid see Longbaugh, Harry
Sundown, Jackson 499
Sutton–Taylor feud 272
Swan Land and Cattle
Company 198, 226, 490
Taylor, William E. 88–95
telegraphy 137–8
temperance movement 470–1
Teton Sioux 38
Texan Revolution 65–72
Texas 62–75, 149, 152, 520
Texas Longhom 150, 151
Texas Panhandle 201–2
Texas Rangers 313–317, 519
Thomas, Heck 276, 291, 292, 298, 300, 301
Thompson, William 385
Tilghman, Bill 291–2, 293, 300, 301–2, 333–4, 461, 504, 527
Tombstone 126, 306–10
train robbery 283–4
Travis, William B. 65, 66, 67, 68–9, 70, 71
Treaty of Paris (1783) 29, 518
Tubbs, “Poker Alice” 331
Tunstall, John Henry 207, 210–11
Turner, Frederick Jackson 459
Twain, Mark 116, 138–42, 264–5
Union Pacific 143, 474–6
US 7th Cavalry 391–403, 416, 417–19, 421, 423–7, 452, 454–5
Utah 109, 111
Ute 430
vaqueros 148, 149, 188–9
Victorio 348, 350, 433–4
vigilantism 117, 212, 233–6, 237–8, 239–44, 263–7, 328, 461, 524
violence in the West 251–67
Virginia 7–8, 29 “Voyage of Discovery” 34–43, 518
Wagon Box Fight 379
wagons 81
walkdowns (gunfights) 254–5
Walker, Captain Samuel 314
Walker, Dr Thomas 20, 517
Wallace, Lew 216–17, 220
Wallace, William (“Big Foot”) 314
Wampanoags 8, 516
War of 1812 47, 53, 54
Washington, George 15–16, 24, 26, 31, 32
Washita battle 391–403, 510
water supplies 465
Watson, Ella 237–8
