by Mari Sandoz
International Livestock Show (Chicago, 1908), 472
Interstate Commerce Commission, 465, 466
Interstate Land and Cattle Co., 443
Irvine, Billy, 359, 363, 364, 367, 373, 379, 385, 386, 394, 395, 400
Jacksboro Unionists, 81
Jackson, Teton, 337
Jamestown Exposition, 492
Jesuits, missions of, 9
Johnson, Andrew, 65
Johnson, J. C., 358
Johnson County (Wyo.), 245, 332, 337, 343, 346, 347, 352, 355, 356, 358, 359
Johnson County Invasion, 348-9, 390-402; Dead List, 360, 361, 370, 371, 373, 384, 385, 391; push to KC, 358-66; killing of Ray and Champion, 367-73; besieged at TA, 378-89; surrender to Van Horn, 389; after war, retaliation, 394 and release, 399
Jones, Ben, 366-67, 374, 393, 395, 469
Jones, Marvin, 480
Jones, Orley, 352-53, 355
Kansas, 55-58, 66, 80, 81, 84, 99, 101, 108, 115-14, 116, 118, 120, 124-27, 132, 135, 136, 149, 151, 158, 159, 161, 178, 284, 285; British ranches, 247; cattle killed by storm, 260-61; dry law, 163; losses to Texas fever, 282; tick fever quarantine line pushed westward, 130, 154, 276; National Trail, 280, 281; Shorthorn breeders, 164
Kansas City (Mo.), 42, 50, 56, 123, 125, 153
Kansas City Stock Show (1903) 446
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 57-58, 114, 129, 130
Karlsefni, 29
Kate, Cattle. See Watson, Ella
Keechi region (Texas), 46, 53, 82, 95
Kelley, Hound Dog, 160, 161
Kemp, Frank, 247
Kenedy, Mifflin, 160, 161, 245
Kenedy, Spike, 160, 161
Ketchum, Ami. 197, 198, 200-04, 227, 228, 230; brothers of, 197, 228, 229, 230, 290
King, Ed, 421
King, Richard, 47, 66, 67, 68, 99, 119, 148, 149, 160, 164, 176, 186, 192, 240, 275, 277, 419; death of, 294; idea of national trail, 279
King Ranch, 66, 109, 460, 461, 484
Kinkaid Act of 1904, 446, 447
Kiowas, 84, 215
Kleberg, E. J., 294, 461
Kleberg, Richard, 484
Knights of Labor. 283, 296, 323
Kohrs, Conrad, 267, 476
Korean War, and beef prices, 481, 483
Lakota Cattle Co., 429
Land lease bill, and Theodore Roosevelt, 442, 444
Laramie Boomerang, 241, 246
Laramie County Stock Growers Association, 209
Laramie Plains, 185, 472, 494
Lariat, use of, 64, 406
Larvie Gray (horse), 408, 409, 412
Larvie, Joe, 408, 410
Lasater's Ranch, 461
Lascaux Cave, 25, 26, 28, 33, 488
Lebeau (Missouri River town), 468, 469
LeFors, Joe, 445
Leon, de, Alonso, 11
Leslie's magazine, 49
Lewis, death of, 438, 445
Line Riding Assn. (Wyo.), 336
Lipans, 13, 14
Little Missouri River, 224, 257, 263, 269, 354, 404, 410, 440, 452
Logan, John A., 426
London, 239, 240, 263, 264, 425, 442
Longhorns, 30-38, 50, 58, 66, 84, 86, 87, 94, 102, 130, 133, 144, 147, 178, 185, 224, 236, 250, 258, 280, 472, 487; ability to reach market, 47-48; California reached, 44; Chicago, poor sale (1867), 65; crossed with Shorthorns, 186; on Goodnight range, 178; increase during and after Civil War, 51, 54, 65, 100, 101; largest single drive of (1878), 148; New York reached (1853), 42; tick infection (See Texas fever); weight, 101; See also Cattle; Herds
Longworth, John, 104, 106
Los Angeles, 43
Louisiana, 11, 12, 13, 30, 33, 34, 38, 50, 68, 139
Louisiana Purchase, 30
Loving, Cock-eyed Frank, 162
Loving, Jim, 53, 82, 117, 176, 210, 216, 217, 219, 221
Loving, Joe, 98
Loving, Oliver, 82-96; death of, 97, 176, 212
Lunns, the, 123, 124
Mabry, Seth, 129, 131, 221
McCann, Bill, 393, 400
McCluskie, Mike, 128
McCoy, Joseph G., 57, 58, 65, 110, 126, 130
Mackenzie, Dode, 468, 469, 471
Mackenzie, Murdo, 323, 465, 466, 468, 469, 472
Mackenzie, Gen. Ranald, 135-36, 186, 215
McLain, E., 342
McShane, John A., 242, 243, 481
Maher, John J., 416
Martin, Hurricane Bill, 134
Massachusetts, 241
Massacre of San Antonio, 45
Masterson, Bat, 147, 148, 151-57, 161, 163
Masterson, Ed, 152, 154, 155
Masterson, Jim, 163
Matador Ranch, 245, 274, 315, 323, 422, 423, 425, 433, 465, 468, 470, 477, 479; fire at, 466-68; oil struck by, 481; prizes won by, 472
Mathews, U. S. Marshal, 449
Matlock, Sen., 297, 318, 319
Maud, Walter de S., 318
Maverick, Samuel, 54
Maverick bill (law), 331, 356, 337
Maverickers, 55, 70, 79, 102, 103, 104, 107, 108, 209
Maxwell, Lucien, 82
Median, 219
Mennonites, German, 129
Menzies, W. J., 331
Mercer, 401
Mexican War, 41, 68
Mexicans, as bullfighters, 166-74; commancheros, 212; corrida, 104ff.; fought by Childress, 214; held for ransom by Indians, 44; joined by Texans against Yankees, 117; killed by cowboy raiders, 40; with Longhorns, 68, 109; raiders, 40; ranchers, 39, 133; treatment from Print Olive, 186
Mexico, 4, 6, 9, 79, 83, 114, 165; Comanche raids on horse herds, 46; Faver, 76, 77; independence, 31; Texas independence, 32
Mèzières, De, 14
Middleton, Doc, 129, 200, 226, 409, 417
Midnight (horse), 495
Milk River, 94, 269, 280
Milieu, Capt. E. B., 56, 131, 222
Milwaukee Railroad, 466
Minos, 488, 497
Miss Klamath (horse), 495-96
Mission(s), early, 9, 11, 12, 13; Espiritu Santo, 12, 14; Goliad, 12; Indian raids against 44-45; San Antonio de Valero, 52; secularization, 15, 42, 43
Mississippi River, 9, 39, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57, 111, 118, 334
Missouri, 41, 48, 49, 50, 56, 58, 267, 272; quarantine against Texas cattle, 154; railroads, 55
Missouri River, 94, 144, 195, 325, 330, 440, 466
Mitchell, 197, 198, 200-04, 227, 229, 230
Mnevis, 27
Montana, 94, 99, 110, 136, 149, 164, 211, 225, 226, 237, 238, 249, 250, 252, 254, 400, 452; Alberta tracts leased by ranchers, 263, 265; British ranches, 246; cattle lost, winter 1886-87, 267, 268; drouth, 262; National Trail, 280; Northern Pacific Railroad, 251; sheep, 253, 462; XIT, 325
Moore, Bill, 420
Mores, de, Marquis, 257, 324, 452, 500
Morris (packer), 463
Mosby, Col., 442, 443, 444
Mulhall, Lucille, 493
Murphy Movement for Temperance, 162
Musfeldt, Johnny, 435, 437, 447
Mustangs, 13, 18, 31, 41, 48
My Life on the Range, 402, 476
Myers, Col. John Jacob, 58, 130
Narcelle, Narcisse, 471
Nation, Carry, 301, 316
National Guard (Buffalo, Wyo.), 354, 361, 378, 380, 387
National Stock Growers Assn., 164, 178
National Stockmen's convention, 276
National Trail, 276, 280, 281, 285. 286, 287, 294
Navahos, 91
Neanderthal man, 24
Nebo, Charley, 409
Nebraska, 55, 99, 120, 124, 129, 141, 145, 148, 165, 209, 224, 226, 228, 233, 236, 241-42, 253, 259; Bay State cattle in, 242, 261; British ranches, 246f.; Herd Law, 336; leading beef state (1955), 481; sandhills. 427f.
Nebraska Land and Feeding Co., 439, 450
New Deal Roundup, 480
New Goodnight Trail, 274
New Mexico, 9, 11, 31, 33, 44, 80, 81, 82, 86, 116, 163, 177, 211, 212, 214, 221, 238, 253, 265, 426, 443; barbed-w
ire drift fence, 260; first Texan ranchers, 93; Prairie Cattle Co., 245
New Orleans, 31, 38, 39, 40, 42, 48, 51, 82. 119, 184
New York, 118, 183, 185, 269, 355, 414; herds reaching (1853), 42
New York Herald, 491
New York Madison Square Garden, 493, 496, 497
New York Stampede of 1916, 492
New York State, 112, 249, 272
New York Times, quoted, 484
Newcastle (Wyo.), 342, 345, 360, 381
Newman, 428, 429, 430
Newton (Kansas), 127, 128, 129, 130, 133, 142, 226
Niobrara Game Reserve, 487
Niobrara River, 224, 226, 410, 428, 429, 430, 432, 443, 446
No Man's Land (Neutral Strip), 211, 260, 274, 275, 281-85, 291, 302-06, 417
Nolan, Philip, 31
North Platte, 163, 253, 399
Northern Pacific Railroad, 251, 254
Northern Wyoming Farmers and Stockgrowers Assn., 356, 395
Northwest Texas Stock Raiser* Assn., 221, 222, 223, 238, 257, 275, 323, 423, 476
Norton, Brocky Jack, 131
Nueces River, 40, 66
Nutt, Cal, 187, 188
Nye, Bill, 241
Ogallala, 148, 160, 163, 280, 408, 482, 498
Ogallala Cattle Co., 359, 394, 395
Old Beef Trail, 48
Olive, Bob, 70, 75, 76, 187, 188, 196-201
Olive, Ira, 70, 73, 188, 189, 191, 195, 231, 233, 293
Olive, James, 68
Olive, Louise, 189
Olive, Marion, 231
Olive, Print (I. P.), 68-76, 108, 119, 188, 191-95, 228, 233, 238, 254, 261, 279, 291, 319, 332; arrested. Plum Creek, 229-30; crippling, 70, 187; denounced as man burner, 204, 229; departure from Texas, 186, 188, 189, 190; discharged by Judge Boblits, 232; found guilty of murder, 231; killed, 288, 289, 290
Olive, Thomas, 72, 73, 74, 75, 187
Olive, William, 187, 188, 189, 190, 228, 289, 291-93
Olives, the, 47. 68-72, 75, 76, 99, 108, 114, 118, 119, 191, 193, 194ff., 227; attack on, 73-74, 187; on trial for Turner-Crow murders, 74
Omaha, 58, 153, 324, 355, 449, 476; world's largest livestock market (1955), 481f.
Onate, de, Juan, 9, 33, 34
OPA, 481
Oregon, 78, 94, 112, 237, 241, 243, 249, 256, 278
Osages, the, 123
Osiris, 26, 27
Ox, harnessing of, 29; mid-Pliocene, 23; Strasbourg, 101
Paleolithic man, 24, 25
Palo Duro country, 179, 180, 182, 184, 213, 244, 296, 304, 452
Palo Pinto region, 54, 78, 85, 102, 116, 208, 217
Panhandle, 134, 136, 142, 179-86, 211, 235, 245, 260, 274, 275, 276, 281, 282, 294, 299, 452, 479
Panhandle Association, 274, 303
Panic of 1873, 134, 135, 178, 234f.
Parker, Cynthia Ann, 44, 46, 47, 213
Parker, Quanah, 46, 183
Parmalee, 354, 361, 378, 380, 387, 388
Pawnee Indians, 196
Pea Eye, 71
Pecos River, 3, 4, 5, 8, 80, 81, 86-96, 97, 114, 144, 177, 182, 213, 214, 258; Horsehead Crossing of, 92
Penrose, Boies, 452
Penrose, Charles, 358, 362, 365, 374
Petersen, Marquard, 454, 501
Philadelphia, 138, 141, 185
Phreme, Deets, 70
Pickett, Bill, 492, 496
Pierce, Cad, 130, 131, 132
Pierce, Shanghai, 110, 119, 123, 124, 126, 129, 130, 188, 275, 277, 301
Pike, Zebulon M., 31
Pim, Capt. Bedford, 278
Pine Ridge Reservation, 408, 409, 410, 431, 440, 477
Pinkertons, 348, 434, 436
Pinkeye. 473
Piper, Edward, 41
Platte River, 55, 100, 112, 150, 192, 193, 194, 209, 224, 226, 228, 269
Pleuro-pneumonia, 254, 258, 276
Plum Creek, 194, 200, 203, 228, 229
Plunkett, Sir Horace, 333
Ponting, Tom, 42
Pourier, Big Bat, 408, 409
Powder River Cattle Co., Ltd., 245, 247, 263, 269
Powder River country, 224, 244, 331, 332, 333, 349, 355, 360, 396, 399, 493
Powell, Fred, 438, 439, 445
Prairie Cattle Co., Ltd., 237, 245, 247, 309, 472
Prairie Dog Town Fork, 180
Prescott (Ariz.), 495
Prickly Pear Prairie, 40
Privett, Samuel Thomas, 492, 496
Pryor, Ike, 258, 270, 277, 477
Pueblo, 82, 178
Pueblo Chieftain, 273, 287
Quarantine against Texas cattle, 112f., 136, 162-65, 176, 273, 276, 325; enforced by Kansas guards, 282; Supreme Court decision against, 154
Quarter Circle 71 (Wyo.), 245, 332, 344
Rader, Rev., 381, 383, 385, 391, 401
Ranching, and Big Die-Ups, 259-267, 270, 312, 316, 332, 350, 429, 451, 476; bonanza days of, 237-248; as business, 462-63, 490; in later 1920's, little prosperity in, 478
Range Journal, 293
Rangers, Texas, 46, 64, 79, 81, 95, 132, 213, 282, 283, 310
Rash, killed by Horn, 445
Rattlesnake Pete, 417
Rattlesnakes, 38, 40, 41, 63
Rawhide, 63, 64
Ray, Nick, 363, 367, 369, 371, 372, 373, 377, 380, 382, 391, 392
Reconstruction Act of 1867, 65
Red Cloud Agency (Neb.), 148
Red River, 13, 14, 31, 34, 39, 48, 51, 56-58, 65, 108, 111, 116, 125, 149, 179, 216, 222; Doan's Crossing of, 145, 283; flooding of, 115; and National Trail, 279, 281
Red Sash gang, 350, 396
Reed, One-Anned Jim, 129
Refrigeration, of beef, 235, 257, 324
Republican River, 120, 127, 145, 190, 192
Reynolds, the, 119, 160, 183, 260
Reynolds, George, 80, 185, 186, 218, 275, 276, 309
Reynolds, Sallie, 81
Rich, Kid. 470, 471
Richards, Bartlett, 429-34, 438, 439, 442, 443, 446-55, 462, 478; wife of, 453, 454
Richards, Charley, 415, 416
Richards, DeForest, 354, 394, 429, 432, 433, 443, 446, 462
Richards, Jarvis, 452, 433, 443
Richards, Paul, 466
Richardson, 162
Riggs, Johnny, 409
Riley, Jim, 128, 129, 226
Rinderpest, 472
Rio Grande, 8, 9, 10, 11, 31, 34, 40, 46, 79, 100, 440; Big Bend country of, 76 f.; King's steamboats on, 66
Road branding, for drives, 108, 109
Robbers' Roost gang, 177, 178
Robbins Ranch, 484
Rocking Chair Ranch, 244, 247, 302
Rocky Mountain News, 380
Rodeo, 488, 492-96; at Madison Square Garden, 497
Rogers, Will, 493
Roosevelt, Theodore, 269, 358, 419, 440-49, 452, 453, 465, 478, 492, 495, 500
"Roosevelt Roundup," 448
Rosario Mission, 12, 489
Rosebud Indian Reservation, 428, 451, 440
Rosenbaum, Joseph, 268, 468, 476
Ross, Sul, 46, 47, 323
Rushville Standard, 449
Russell, Buckskin Jack, 409
Russell, Charles M., 266
Rustlers, 53, 54, 65, 70, 71, 149, 154, 210, 211, 215, 218, 220, 223, 224, 227, 439; and "Death of the Skins," 72; invasion of Johnson County, 348ff., 357-89; in 1940's and 1950's, 482-83>
St. Louis, 42, 50, 164, 255, 257, 269, 272, 276, 277; as cattle market, in fight with Chicago, 323, 324; Exposition in, 278
St. Louis Intelligencer, 42
San Antonio, 30, 31, 222, 490; cholera epidemic in (1849-50), 64; Massacre at, 45
San Antonio de Valero Mission, 32
San Antonio River, 12, 15, 14, 50, 40
San Gabriel region (Texas), 70, 74, 186, 191, 192, 224, 279, 288, 425
San Jacinto, battle of, 32
San Saba country, 13, 14, 65, 80, 114
Sandoz, Emile, 450
Sandoz, Jules, 435n., 447, 448
Santa Fe Railroad, 127, 128, 130, 321, 4
84
Sanu Fe Trail, 177, 284
Santa Gertrudis, 28, 66, 461
Saunders, W. D. H., 51, 52, 57
Scottish-American Investment Co., 331
Scottish-American Mortgage Co., 236
Scottish Arkansas Valley Land and Cattle Co., 421
Scottish Banking and Insurance Magazine, 246
Scottish ranches, in U. S., 245, 330, 337
Searight, fortune of, 239f.
Seminoles, 66
Seton-Karr, Henry, 300, 320
Shannon, Col. Tom, 184
Shawnee Trail, 55
Sheek, Wes, 78
Sheep, 253, 254, 446, 462
Sheldon, A. E., 393
Sheridan, Gen., 298
Sheridan region (Wyo.), 346, 349, 360
Sherman family, Indian attack on, 45
Shonsey, Mike, 336, 359, 363-66, 374, 376, 383, 385, 392, 395, 399, 434
Shorthorns, 28, 111, 136, 164, 181, 184, 185, 186, 193, 235-36, 250, 274, 277, 294, 311, 316, 473; cross with Brahmans, 461; dwarfism in, 474
Shreveport, 39, 48, 82
Sickles, Dan, 175
Simpson, John N., 216, 283
Sioux, 94, 140, 149, 236, 243, 334, 360, 403, 408, 410, 414, 415, 416, 432, 440, 493
Siringo, Chas. A., 434n., 436
Sitting Bull, 150, 414
Slack, Col. E. A., 494
Slaughter, Ben, 104
Slaughter, C. C., 58, 216, 238, 239f., 270, 283, 316, 323, 476
Smith, Terrence, 368, 377
Smith, Tom, 345, 346, 349, 351, 356, 357, 359, 364, 366, 372, 376, 382, 385, 392, 400
Smoky Hill River, 100, 110, 111, 148
Smoky Hill Trail, 136
Snodgrass, 242
Snow, Sam, 230
Snow, Tamar, 197, 198, 201, 204, 230, 293
Snyder, Dudley, 47, 53, 69, 72, 114, 115, 188
Snyder, J. W., 69, 72
Snyders, the, 187, 231, 238, 240, 270, 316, 340
South Texas Association, 277
Sowell, Andrew, 40, 41
Spade Ranch, 431-35, 439, 446-51, 454, 481; mortgage on, 477
Spain, 9, 13, 30; breeding for improved stock in, 29; Mexican independence, 31; paintings in caves of, 25
Spaniards, 4, 5, 6, 15, 33, 64; defeated by Indians at Red River, 13; pueblo Indian uprising against, 11; San Saba River mission founded by, 13