by Mari Sandoz
Barber, Gov., 354, 358, 394
Barton, Doc, 142, 166
Basch, Charlie, 352, 354
Bates process, for refrigeration of beef, 235
Baxter. Gov., 348, 357, 363, 374, 379, 398, 399
Bay State Land and Cattle Co., 241, 242, 244, 261, 277, 399
Beaty, 324
Beef prices, in 1877, 235; after Spanish-American War, 465; in 1951, 481; in late 1950's, 484
Beef Bonanza or How to Get Rich on the Plains, 238
Beef Trust, 463
Beefmaster cattle, 461
Bent County (Colo.), 282, 287, 294
Berry, John, 417
Big Bend country, of Rio Grande, 76f., 78, 80, 322
Big Horns (Wyo.), 346, 360, 390
Billy the Kid, 302
Black Hills, 148, 149, 209, 224, 238, 253, 259, 324, 408, 410, 429, 466, 493
Black Hills Stock Association, 468
Blackleg, 473
Blocker, Ab, 275, 304, 305
Blocker, John R.; 285, 286, 287, 305
Board of Live Stock Commissioners (Wyo.), 336, 348, 349, 355-56, 359
Boblits, Judge, 232
Bonanza, in ranching, 237-48
Booker, Wiliam, 358, 389, 393, 402
Border Rover, 285
Bos primigenius (urus), 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 101, 487
Bothwell, A. J., 338-42, 345, 448
Bowie, James, 33
Boyce, A. G., 316, 319, 321-25
Bozeman Trail, 94
Brady, Tom, 410, 412, 413
Braford cattle, 461
Brahman cattle, 460, 461, 495
Branding, of cattle, 108, 109, 207, 208, 226, 251, 304, 305
Brangus cattle, 28, 461
Brazoria (Texas), 67
Brazos River, 12, 13, 34, 46-51, 54, 79, 81, 85, 92, 111, 114, 212; Clear Fork of, 210
Breeders Gazette, 241
Breeding, science of, 29
Brennan, Joe, 130ff.
Brill, George, 199
Brisbin, 238
British-American ranches, 246
British capital, in American cattle industry, 238, 239, 241, 312, 313, 320, 334
British ranches, in United States, 244-47, 300, 465
Bronc riding, 490, 491, 492, 493
Brown, Arapaho, 378, 383, 385, 387, 397, 400, 401
Browns Park Cattle Association, 445
Brownsville (Texas), 66
Brucellosis, in cattle, 473
Buchanan, 340, 341, 342, 343
Buffalo (Wyo.), 334, 337, 338, 344, 352, 353, 354, 359, 360, 361, 364-371, 374-87, 390, 393-96, 400
Buffalo Springs, 283, 299, 302, 303, 304, 306, 310, 321
Buffaloes, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 54, 63, 64, 84, 142, 143, 182; exhibition car, 113; in Montana, 94; scarcity in Texas, 79; stampede of, 92-93; vanishing, 100, 210, 296; in Wyoming, 94
Bull(s), on trail, 95-96; Thessalian, 489; wild, 9, 12, 15-19; fight between, 20-22; See also Cattle; Herds
Bull baiting and running, England, 489
Bull's Head Saloon, 119-24
Bulldogging, 492
Bullfight(s), first in U.S., 166ff., 301; on ranches, 49-50
Bureau of Animal Industry, 276, 287
Burtons, the, 109
Bush, A. P., 323
Butterfield Trail, 85, 95
Cain, Neil, 130, 131, 132
Cairnes, 431, 432, 439
Caldwell (Kansas), 163, 164
Caldwell, Paint, 40
Calf value (1883), 241
California, 81, 95, 114, 220, 450; cattle in, 33, 42, 43; Kill-Off in, 43, 489; refrigerated beef shipped to, 324; Texas Long-horns reaching, 44; vaqueros of, 64
California Joe, 141
Campbell, Barbecue, 301-05, 310-318; discharged by Farwell, 319, 320; prairie fire, 306-10
Campbell, C. A., 358, 401
Canada, 99, 112, 235, 267, 277, 279, 281, 294
Canadian River, 46, 48, 179, 181, 212, 213, 245, 260, 274, 296, 314, 320
Canton, Frank, 331, 332, 337, 342, 343, 346-51, 354-59, 363-76, 381, 382, 384, 392, 396, 400; later career of, 401
Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Co., Ltd., 300ff.
Capitol Lands Reservation, 235, 296-97, 300
Capitol Syndicate, 300, 317
Caple, Manley, 199
Carey, Sen., 330, 355, 361, 381, 386, 387, 452, 462
Carlin, D. F., 405, 406
Carpetbaggers, 65, 79, 80, 207
Carroll, Judge, 279
Carson, Kit. 82
Carter, Charlie, 394
Carter, Kit, 46, 47, 216, 217, 221, 223, 224, 238, 257, 323
Casper (Wyo.), 341, 342, 344, 346, 360, 365, 416
Cassidy, Butch, 494
"Castilian" cattle, 13
Cattle, ancient, 23-28; barnyard, 254; Big Die-Ups, 259-68, 270, 312, 316, 332, 350, 429, 451, 476; black, 33; in California, 33, 42, 43; from Coronado's herd, 3-10; crosses, 460, 461, 487; delivered to Confederacy, 53; disease in, 68, 111ff., 254, 258, 276, 472, 473 (see also Texas fever); domestication, earliest, 27, 28; dwarfism, 474; Egyptian cult, 26, 27; in Greenland, first, 29; increase in Texas (1860's), 51, 54. 65; Kansas, heavy shipments to, (1869-71), 118, 126; Mexican, 34; missions, first, 11, 12; north reached (1853-55), 42; Nova Scotia, first, 29; on Old Beef Trail, 48-49; paintings in ancient caves, 25, 26, 28; on Plains, first, 3ff.; on Sable Island, 30; stealing made felony (1873), 211; wild, 9-21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 109, 207; hunts, 102-106; increase during and after Civil War, 51, 54, 65, 100, 101; raiders, 40; See also (Bull(s); Cow(s); Herds; Longhorns; Shorthorns; Steers
Cattle-fields of the Far West, The, 239
Cattle Growers Association of Bent County (Colo.), 282
Cavanaugh, Jim, 471
Caves, ancient, paintings in, 25, 26, 28
Celtic shorthorn, 28
Chadron (Neb.), 393, 414-18, 429-434
Champion, Dudley, 399
Champion, Nate, 349-54, 359, 360, 363, 364, 367, 371, 372; brothers of, 391, 399; death of, 372, 373, 377, 380; funeral of, 391, 392; quoted, 368-72; mother a Standifer, 424
Charbray cattle, 461
Cherokee Nation, 42, 93
Cherokee Outlet, 282, 287, 291
Cheyenne, 93, 98, 148, 209, 237, 240, 241, 280, 331, 340, 358, 365, 368, 374, 379, 381, 382; brone busting in, 493, 494; Invaders brought to, 394, 395, 398
Cheyenne Club, 269, 329, 334, 403, 430, 442
Cheyenne Frontier Day, 494, 495
Cheyenne Indians, 84, 93, 94, 140, 158, 160, 215, 271
Cheyenne Leader, 338
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, 472
Cheyenne Sun, 338, 362, 365; quoted, 268, 269
Cheyenne Sun-Leader, 494
Chicago, 111, 118, 236, 263, 264, 268, 272, 277, 281, 319, 354; as cattle market, in fight with St. Louis, 323, 324; cattle trailed to, 49; early carload deliveries of cattle to, 58, 65; Grand Champion Award at (1911), 472; International Livestock Show at (1908), 472; slaughtered cattle shipped in iced cars to, 98; World's Fair in, 416
Chicago Board of Trade, 255
Chicago Livestock Commission, 476
Childress, H. M., 214
Chisholm, Jesse, 57, 188
Chisholm Trail, 58, 59, 66, 112, 127, 133, 136, 138, 163, 286
Chisum, John, 188-89, 226, 319, 339
Cholera epidemic (1849-50), 64
Christensen, 199
Cibolo Springs Ranch, 77, 78
Cimarron River, 134, 156, 245, 256
Cimarrones (wild cattle), 9, 12
Civilized Tribes, 56, 79, 84, 133
Clark, A. B., 358
Clarke, W. J., 358
Clay, John, 245, 277, 331, 334, 337, 339, 344, 347, 348, 357, 358, 359, 381, 389, 393, 398, 399, 401, 422; as author, 402, 476; connections with Matador Ranch, 425; efforts of, on behalf of Invaders, 398; fired from Swan management, 402; as friend of Horn, 434, 438, 446; quoted, 402, 464; Western Ranches managed by, 464
Clear Creek, 197, 200, 202
Cleveland, Grover, 255, 256, 264
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bsp; Cluck, George, 114, 115
Cluck, Mrs., 114, 115, 116
Cody, Bill, 362, 417
Coe, Phil, 119-26, 140
Coe, William, 177, 178
Coffee, Harry B., 482
Cole, Jason, 435, 436, 437
Cole, Ralph, 341, 342, 345, 344, 364, 437, 438
Cole, Thad, 437
Colorado, 80, 81, 82, 85, 92, 97, 98, 99, 114, 142, 143, 149, 176, 178, 209, 214, 238, 265, 284, 285; Bat Masterson in, 163; grass of, 94; National Trail, 287; quarantine tightened against Texas cattle, 325; Shorthorn seed stock from, 185
Colorado Cattle Association, 274
Colorado River, 13, 51
Colt six-shooter, 64
Comancheros,79, 81, 94, 97, 114, 149, 181, 212, 213, 214, 215
Comanches, 13, 14, 35, 44, 45, 46, 53-54, 57, 78-84, 94, 95, 97, 159, 180, 183; defeated by Mackenzie, 215; rustlers, 211, 212
Comstock, William, 439, 448, 449, 451, 453, 477; wife of, 453, 454
Confederacy, 53, 54, 69, 82, 270
Connor, Bob, 340, 342
Cook, James H., 104, 105, 106
Coolidge Citizen, 293
Coronado, 4-11, 13, 30, 46
Courtright, 426, 427
Cow(s) first on Plains, 3-8; importance of, 63, 64, 102, 234; in India, 27; in Jewish history, 27; Longhorn, 35f.; in mixed herd, 84, 85, 86; See also Cattle; Herds; Longhorns
Cowboys, black-listing of, 225; characteristics, after Civil War, 100; Dodge City, 146, 167, 169; Grady's, 490; horses of, 406-07; Mexican ranchers raided by, 40; origin of term, 39; pay for branding mavericks, 333; praised by Goodnight, 479; romantic picture of, 49; in tournaments, 491
Cowden, Jeff, 102
Coyote, 16, 19, 21, 22, 143
Craig, Jim, 393
Crazy Horse, 150, 410, 429, 493
Crazy Woman Creek (Fork), 245, 358, 368, 374, 381, 389
Creighton, 242, 481
Cro-Magnon man, 25
Cross Timbers, 45, 46, 51, 53, 65, 79, 82, 178, 216
Crow, James H., 72, 74
Crow Indians, 264
Cudahy (packer), 463, 482
Culver, Martin, 281, 284, 285
Curtis, Joe, 273
Custer, George, 140, 141, 150, 255
Custer County, (Nebr.), 203, 232, 263
Dahlman, Jim, 407, 408, 411-16, 428, 429, 481, 492
Daily Drovers Journal, 235, 255
Dakota Territory (Dakotas), 94, 99, 126, 129, 161, 191, 195, 211, 243, 245, 259, 260, 265; British ranches in, 245, 246, 247; Great White Ruin, 261; hone-racing in, 407ff.
Dallas, 42, 48, 216, 283
Dallas Herald, 42
Dallas News, 317
Dalton, Charlie. 219
Dalton, M. L., 116
Dana, Richard, 43
Dances, at ranch wedding, 405-06
Dave, Dead Center, 383, 384, 388
David, E. T., 380
Davis, Hard Winter, 360, 365, 396
Davis, "Quick-Shot," 359
Dawson, John, 82, 273
Day, Jesse, 50, 54
"Days of the Bulls," 12, 489
Deadwood, 140, 145, 148, 154, 163, 167, 404
"Death of the Skins," 72, 107, 198
DeBillier, Fred, 358, 369, 399
DeCory, 340-44, 438
Deger, Marshal, 151, 152
Deir, tombs of, 27
Denver, 58, 81, 82, 92, 177, 180, 183, 273, 357, 380, 422, 497
Die-Ups, Big, 259-67, 270, 312, 316, 332, 350, 429, 451, 476
Dilworth, Attorney, 231, 233
Doc Middleton (horse), 415, 416
Dodge City, 136-57, 159, 160-65, 176, 497; bullfight in, 166-75, 254, 301; Gowboy Band, 169; Indian scare at, 157-60; Moore's herd, 275; Print Olive's body taken to, 290; Whitney-Haley prize fight at, 152-53
Dodge City Times, 151, 157
Douglas (Wyo.), 338, 360, 363, 365, 374, 379, 381, 387, 394
Driskill, J. W., 144
Driskills, the, 119, 124, 409
Drouth, 262, 265, 270, 317, 483, 484
Dudley, Big Jim, 371, 372, 373, 375, 380, 393
DuFran, Phil, 195, 197, 201, 203, 229-32, 359, 373, 375, 382, 385, 392, 398, 445, 468, 469, 470
Dunbar, Will, 436
Dupree, Fred, 405
Durbin, John, 340, 342
Durbin Land and Cattle Company, 340
Dwarfism in cattle, "sinister gene" for, 474
Earp, Wyatt, 147, 148, 152, 155, 156, 157, 161, 163
Economist, The, 246
Edinburgh (Scotland), 237, 239, 240, 425, 442
Edwards, West, 208
Egypt, cult of cattle in, 26, 27
El Paso, 221, 324
Elliott, Joe, 349, 350, 356, 359, 364, 365, 370, 376, 382, 385
Ellsworth (Kansas), 126, 129, 130, 132, 136, 149, 151, 432
England, American beef shipped to, 235f.
Erik the Red, 29
Espiritu Santo Mission, 12, 14, 489
Esquela Land and Cattle Co., 420
Eye cancer, in Shorthorn, 473
Fall, Albert B., 478
Farwell, Charles, 297, 298, 299, 319, 320, 322, 323
Farwell, John V., 300, 301, 304, 311, 312, 318-22, 325
Faver, Milton, 76, 77, 78
Federal Surplus Relief Corp., 480
Fergus, James, 500
Fetterman, Captain, 95, 390
FF herds, 243-44
Fiddler (horse), 408, 409, 412, 413
Fire, prairie, and Barbecue Campbell, 306-10; at Matador Ranch, 466-68; Print Olive, 194-95; set against Indians (1865), 306
Fisher, Fred, 199, 229, 230, 231, 232
Flagg, Black Jack, 352, 356, 370, 371, 378, 379, 392, 400
Florida, 139, 249, 450, 461
Foot-and-mouth disease, 165, 472
Foote, 361, 377, 385, 392-93
Force, William, 404
Ford, Charley, 374, 375
Ford County Globe, 155, 174
Fort Bascom, 212, 214
Fort Elliott, 183, 298, 304
Fort Griffin, 137, 210, 215, 220, 222, 223, 224
Fort Griffin Echo, 276
Fort McKinney, 365, 375, 378, 382, 385, 387, 390
Fort Sumner, 83, 86, 90-97, 274
Fort Worth, 324, 426, 493, 497
Foy, Eddie, 155, 156
Franciscans, missions of, 9
French, the, 9, 13, 14, 39; in Dakota, 408ff.; east Texas, 11; Louisiana, 12, 30
Frewen, Moreton, 244, 245, 246, 247, 257, 258, 263, 269, 333
Frontier Day shows, 495, 496
Galbraith, R. M., 342
Gallardo, Captain, 166, 169-74
Galveston, 38, 68
Garrett, Pat, 302
Gaslin, Judge, 229, 230, 231, 232
Georgetown (Texas), 74
Gilbertson, Ross, 349, 350, 351, 352
Gill, Bobby, 151, 152
Gillan, Sheriff, 203, 229, 230, 231
Glendive (Montana) Times, 252
Goliad (Texas), 12, 40, 175
"Gone North" (GN), 129, 188
"Gone to Texas" (GTT), 39, 42
Goodnight, Charles, 45, 47, 78-99, 114, 135, 139, 144, 176-88, 207, 212, 214, 238; and Coloradoans, 273, 274; in conflict with King, 460; cowboys praised by, 479; death of, 479; fortune made in cattle, 239f.; as friend of Indians, 479; letter to Reynolds, 275-76; National Trail supported by, 280; as president of Panhandle Association, 274, 277; and Select Senate Committee, 323; trouble with sheep, 253
Goodnight, Mary, 178, 181, 183
Goodnight-Loving Trail, 95, 120, 177, 215
Grady, A. B., 490
Graham (Texas), 47, 216, 217, 218, 222, 476
Grand Champion Award (Chicago, 1911), 472
Grange, the, 296
Grant, Ulysses S., 135, 139, 153
Great Plains, 35, 44, 238, 296, 420, 497; first cattle upon, 3ff.; stocked to Canada, 279
Great White Ruin, 261, 265, 287, 309, 312
Guadalupe River, 12, 40, 487
Haley (rancher), 208,
209
Haley (Red Bird of South), 152, 153
Halford, John (Lengthy), 291, 292, 293
Hall of Bulls (Lascaux Cave), 25, 26, 33, 488
Halsell, Glenn, 269
Hand, Dora, 161
Hardin, John Wesley, 123, 124, 126
Harding, Warren G., 478
Harper's Weekly,49
Harrison, Benjamin, 387
Hastings (Neb.), 231, 232, 453, 454
Hayes, Rutherford B., 138, 139, 153
Hearst, George, 439
Heidelberg man, 24
Helena (Mont.), 266, 268
Hemorrhagic septicemia, 473
Henderson, and Bill Olive, 291-93
Henderson, George B., 340-44, 437, 438
Henry's Fork Stock Growers Assn., 331
Herd Law of Nebraska, 336
Herds of cattle, mixed, 85-86; prices of (1870), 118; she-stuff in, 84ff., 224; size of, 80, 114; and water shortage, 87, 88, 89; in Wyoming, biggest, 263; See also Bull(s); Cattle; Cow(s); Longhorns; Steers
Herefords, 141, 185, 186, 277. 311, 317, 329, 432, 446, 452; crossed with Brahmans, 461; dwarfism in, 474; gentleness of, 486; at Swan ranch, 476
Hesse, Fred, 247, 263, 264, 333, 339-43, 352-56, 359, 367, 375, 376, 384, 389, 392, 396, 399
Hickok, Wild Bill, 120-26, 140, 141, 255, 319
Higgins, Pinckney, 422, 423, 424
Hittson, William, 215, 221
Homesteaders, 441, 446
Hoover, Herbert, 478
Hoover, Mayor, of Dodge City, 145, 147
Horn, Tom, 348, 358, 359, 376-77, 434, 438, 439, 444, 445, 446, 475
Horsbrugh, 421, 422
Horses, and first vaqueros, 10; importance to cowboys, 406-07; mustang, 13, 18, 31, 41, 48; number of, in Palo Duro canyon, 180; for racing, 407-17; stealing, 154, 211
Houston, Sam, 58, 220
Hoyt, George, 156, 157
Huidekopers, the, 452
Humane Society, 261, 262, 415, 417
Hunter, Robert D., 56. 57, 58, 277, 279
Hunton, Jack, 335
Huy, tomb of, 27
Ijams, Hiram, 348, 377, 399
Ikard, Bose, 82, 221
Ikard. W. S., 141, 142, 185, 221, 238
Iliff, John W., 92, 93, 94, 98, 177
Illinois, 42, 56, 57, 78, 82, 110, 114, 120; cattle disease in, 112, 113; Shorthorns in, 301
India, Brahman cattle of, 460; cow in, 27
Indian Act of 1834, 56
Indian Bureau, 465
Indian Territory, 34, 42, 45, 46, 56, 57, 78, 79, 84, 93, 115, 133, 135, 136, 144, 168, 177, 211, 238, 264, 271, 283; and barbed-wire drift fence, 260; financial losses to Texas fever, 282
Indians, 12, 15, 32, 40, 94, 102, 114, 115, 142, 191, 256, 265, 390, 470; buffalo, importance of, 63, 64, 473; cattle hunted by, 10, 11, 14; Confederacy, 54; Coronado, 3-8; crop-growing, 10; Faver, Milton, 77; horse-racing, 409-15; horse-stealing, 64, 79, 85; missions, 9, 43; prairies cleared of, 296; raids by, 44-47, 77-78, 80, 84, 91, 95, 96, 97, 210ff.; reservations jumped by, 157-60; San Saba mission destroyed, 13; Texas, 11, 44ff., 80, 91, 95, 96, 97, 213, 214; victory over Custer, 140, 150; See also specific tribes