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  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

 

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