Axelby, Mr., 140, 141. Bad Lands, the, their appearance, 5-7, 18, 23;
the name, 6;
the opening up of, 24, 25;
the lawless element in, 54, 126-30, 136;
horse and cattle thieves in, 139-42;
winter in, 223-28, 236-38;
spring in, 248-50;
styles in, 321, 322;
religion in, 325-28;
law and order enter, 328-30;
obtain organized government, 387;
a hard winter in, 430-39;
to-day, 474.
Bad Lands Cowboy, The, 76, 77, 131-33, 329;
burned out, 451.
Bear-hunting, 185-88.
"Ben Butler," 276, 289-91.
Bennett, Hank, 252, 253.
Benton, Thomas Hart, Roosevelt's Life of, 371, 397-99.
Bernstead, 375, 386 n.
Berry-Boyce Cattle Co., 94.
Big Horn Mountains, hunting in, 168, 175-88.
"Big Jack" and "Little Jack," 141, 142.
Bismarck, Dakota, 73.
Bismarck Tribune, on Roosevelt, 341.
Black Jack, 135.
Blaine, James G., nomination of, 88.
Blizzard, a, 431-33.
Boice, Henry, 25.
Bolan, Pierce, 143, 197, 198.
Bronco-busting, 225-27.
Buffalo, hunting, 23, 24, 28-39, 44, 45;
extermination of, 29.
Bullock, Seth, 459.
Buttes, 6, 7, 13, 18, 202, 203. Carow, Edith, engagement to Roosevelt, 426;
marriage of, 430.
Cattle, trailing, 268-70.
Cattle companies, 242.
Cattle torture, 266, 267.
Chicago Tribune, on Roosevelt, 350.
Chimney Butte, trail to, 13;
account of, 15.
Coeur d'AlÊnes, 419.
County organization, 55, 133-35, 324, 387.
Cowboys, talk of, 100;
their attitude toward Roosevelt, 101, 102;
reading of, 228;
a song of, 280;
diversions of, 281;
character of, 282;
profanity of, 283;
practical jokes of, 283, 284.
Cummins, Mr., 111, 323.
Cummins, Mrs., and Mrs. Roberts, 111, 112;
her views, 259, 260;
Roosevelt dines with, 293, 294;
and Mrs. Ferris, 361, 362;
the last of, 456.
"Custer Trail," 13, 109, 110. Dantz, Bill, 56;
a singer of songs and a spinner of yarns, 281;
made Superintendent of Education at Medora, 319;
elected superintendent of schools, 390;
the last of, 456, 473.
Day, Chancellor, 289 n.
Deadwood stage-line, the Marquis's project of, 77, 78, 120-24, 170, 209-14.
"Devil, The," 271-75.
Dickinson, first Fourth of July celebration of, 405-11;
growth of, 452.
Dickinson Press, the, helps county organization, 133, 134;
fashion notes in, 321, 322.
Dow, Wilmot, 88, 159, 163;
Roosevelt's contract with, 156, 157, 481;
as a cowhand, 189, 190, 206, 225;
and the vigilantes, 191, 192, 195;
good company, 217;
his andirons, 240;
goes East to get married, 307;
character of, 313, 314;
on a thief hunt, 372-80;
terminates engagement with Roosevelt, 424-28;
the last of, 457.
Dow, Mrs., 313.
Dutch Chris, 386 n.
"Dutch Wannigan." See Reuter.
Dynamite Jimmie. See McShane. Eaton, Howard, 8, 13;
and the Marquis de Mores, 60, 61;
his appearance, 110;
calls on Roosevelt, 164, 165;
neighbor of Roosevelt, 315.
Eaton Ranch, 456.
Eatons, the, 25, 109, 110, 260, 263, 456.
Elkhorn, ranch, 202, 240;
life at, 310-17;
to-day, 475.
Elkhorn Stock Co., 458. Ferguson, R. H. M., 458.
Ferris, Joe, 10, 11;
his career, 14-16;
and the extra saddle horse, 17;
brings down a buck, 24;
on the buffalo hunt, 28-39, 44, 45;
firm for law and order, 55, 56, 328;
becomes storekeeper, 80, 81;
prophesies Presidency for Roosevelt, 258;
removes to Medora, 319;
banker of Bad Lands, 347;
gets married, 360;
in Medora in its desolation, 454;
greeted by Roosevelt in 1900, 465;
delegate to Progressive Convention, 473.
Ferris, Mrs. Joe, 360-64.
Ferris, Sylvane, 12;
his career, 14-16;
becomes partner of Roosevelt, 42-44;
for law and order, 55, 56;
signs contract with Roosevelt, 69, 70, 479, 480;
and the Marquis's cattle, 84-86;
confident of success in cattle raising, 255;
rides Ben Butler, 290, 291;
gets involved in the law, 300-04;
in Medora in its desolation, 454;
marries, 455;
delegate to Progressive Convention, 473.
Finnegan, Redhead, 368-86, 457.
Fisher, John C, and Roosevelt, 102-04;
for county commissioner, 134;
and horse thieves, 143;
and Maunders, 199;
and Medora's Great White Way, 319;
at Medora's first election, 390, 391;
the last of, 456.
Fitzgerald, Mrs., 52.
Fitz James, Count, 59.
Flopping Bill, 195.
Foley, 457.
Frazier, George, 417.
Frenchy, 474. Gentling the Devil, 271-75.
Goat hunting, 419-24.
Goodall, Johnny, 334, 390.
Gorringe, H. H., 8, 9, 20, 23, 25. Hainsley, Jake, 85.
Haupt brothers, the, 61, 67-69, 79, 456.
Herrig, Fred, 453.
Hewitt, Abram S., 20.
Hobson, H. H., 394.
Hoffman, Baron von, 210, 450.
Hoffman, Medora von, 59.
Hogue, Jess, 7, 9, 51, 55, 420-23.
Hollenberg, Carl, 258 n.
Horse-thieves. See Thieves.
Huidekoper, A. D., 25, 110. Indians, shooting-match with, 183, 184;
trouble between whites and, 351-54, 357, 358;
Roosevelt's view of, 355;
the psychology of, 356. Jameson, Mr., 146.
Jones, Hell-Roaring Bill, 113-16;
Roosevelt makes friends with, 116;
of the gay life of Medora, 128, 322;
expresses his opinion on the scions of British aristocracy, 261, 262;
and "Deacon" Cummins, 323;
and the Elk Hotel, 360;
watches at the polling-places, 389, 390;
in later years, 454, 455;
the last of, 472, 473.
Jones, Three-Seven Bill, 246, 247, 278. Kelly, Pat, 446.
Kendley, Nitch, 264, 265, 474. La Pache, Louis, 195.
Lang, Gregor, 11, 12;
his cabin, 19;
enjoys talks with Roosevelt, 19, 24-28;
how he established himself at Little Missouri, 20-22;
ranching offer made by Roosevelt to, 41;
makes prophecy concerning Roosevelt, 46;
refuses to make friends with Marquis de Mores, 62;
the Marquis braves grudge against, 118;
his ranch, 160;
his love of argument, 263, 264;
dogmatic in his theories, 264;
relations with Roosevelt and the Marquis, 338;
in later years, 456.
Lang, Mrs. Gregor, 160, 161.
Lang, Lincoln, 23, 27, 28, 41;
biscuits made by, 34;
his description of Bill Williams, 50;
refuses Roosevelt's shot-gun, 96;
his description of Bill Jones, 115 n.;
on grudge of Marquis for Gregor Lang, 118 n.;
on anecdote concerning Roosevelt and Mrs. Maddox, 150 n.;
on the round-up, 277 n.;
in later years, 456.
Langs, the, on the "Three Seven" ranch, 93, 94, 261-63.
Lebo, Norman, 175, 176, 180, 185.
Lebo, Schuyler, 353, 474.
Little Missouri, 7, 8;
society in, 47-57;
proceedings of Marquis de Mores at, 58-65;
begins to flourish, 65, 66;
continues to grow, 70-73;
setback for, 77;
the jail in, 135;
to-day, 474.
Little Missouri Land and Stock Co., the, 20, 61, 77.
Little Missouri Stock Association.
See Stockmen's Association.
Luffsey, Riley, 63, 64, 119. Macdonald, 214 n.
Mackenzie, Dan, 390.
MacNab, 49.
Maddox, Mrs., 95, 96, 150, 356.
Maltese Cross, the, 15, 91, 148;
outfit of, 92;
first year of, 255;
callers at, 264, 265;
to-day, 474.
Mandan Pioneer, the, 65, 154, 158.
Marlow, Pete, 84, 85.
Matthews, 84-86.
Maunders, Archie, 53, 54.
Maunders, Jake, 7, 9, 12, 49, 54-57;
disliked Roosevelt, 58;
and the Marquis de Mores, 62-65;
cleans out Johnny Nelson, 80, 81;
clings to the Marquis, 126;
and horse and cattle thieves, 142;
marked for hanging, 198;
his discreetness, 199;
visits Sewall in the dugout, 199-201;
threatens to shoot Roosevelt, 207, 208;
a bona-fide "bad man," 320;
in Dickinson, 457;
greets Roosevelt, 466.
McFay, 345.
McGee, Chris, 110, 165.
McGeeney, Pete, 52.
McGeeney, Mrs. Pete, 7, 52, 55, 56.
McShane, Jimmie, 347.
Medicine buttes, 202, 203.
Medora, 8, 48;
founded by Marquis de Mores, 61;
blossoms forth, 77;
life of, dominated by the Marquis, 116-18;
gay life of, 127;
notorious for its iniquity, 128-30;
attempts at reform in, 131-35;
in need of a jail, 135;
mass meeting at, 136, 137;
police force and fire department of, 137, 138;
growth of, 170, 318-20;
possessed deputy marshal, 221;
the coming of law in, 323, 328;
religion at, 325;
first election at, 389-91;
its glory departed, 451, 452, 454;
visited by Roosevelt as nominee for vice-presidency, 466;
Roosevelt's last visit to, 469;
to-day, 474.
Merrifield, A. W., 12;
his career, 14-16;
becomes partner of Roosevelt, 42-44;
tries to establish law in Little Missouri, 56;
signs contract with Roosevelt, 69, 70, 479, 480;
and the Marquis's cattle, 84-86;
tries out Roosevelt on the Sully Trail, 103, 104;
on hunting trip, 175-88;
confident of success in cattle raising, 255;
carries news of Mrs. Ferris's adherence to cowboys, 361, 362;
marries, 447;
delegate to Progressive Convention, 473.
Mexico, flurry over, 413, 414.
Miles City, 392-95.
Mingusville, 151-54, 242-47.
Montana Live Stock Association, 219.
Montana Stockgrowers' Association, 392-95, 444-46.
Mores, Marquis de, 25;
arrival at Little Missouri, 58-60;
his views, 60, 61;
and the Northern Pacific Refrigerator Car Co., 61, 79;
founds Medora, 61;
tries to win supporters, 62;
and Maunders, 62-65;
and Riley Luffsey, 63, 64, 119;
in business, 67-69;
extends his business, 70-72;
and The Bad Lands Cowboy, 76;
and the Deadwood stage, 77, 78, 120-24, 170, 209-14;
loss of his sheep, 78;
his cabbage project, 79, 80;
removes his cattle from the Roosevelt bottom-land, 84-86;
description of, 116;
dominates life of Medora, 117;
his grudge against Gregor Lang, 118;
lacked judgment, 119;
and Roosevelt, 124;
on the side of violence, 125, 130;
tries to join Stuart's vigilantes, 147;
claims Roosevelt's range, 165, 191;
member of stockmen's association, 234;
his idea of the Western climate, 236;
and his abattoir, 331-34: and kaoline, 334;
without friends in Medora, 334;
liked the Bad Lands, 335;
his genealogy, 335, 336;
relations with Roosevelt, 336-42, 345-49;
indicted for murder, 342, 343;
in jail, 344;
his trial, 345, 346;
goes to France, 359;
new schemes of, 447-50;
leaves for India, 450;
article in Sioux Falls Press on, 450;
later career and death of, 460-63.
Mores, Marquise de, 462, 463.
Morrill, Joe, 143;
deputy marshal in Medora, 221, 222;
stock inspector, 324;
sheriff, 390;
vs. George Myers, 442-44;
dismissed from inspectorship, 444, 445;
later encounters with Roosevelt, 457.
Mountain sheep, hunting, 228-32.
Mugwumps, the, 88, 172, 208.
Myers, George, cowpuncher, 93;
his cookery, 106, 107, 232;
invests in cattle, 255;
accused of cattle stealing, 442-44;
in later years, 467, 473. Nelson, Johnny, 7, 80, 81.
Nesters, 194-96.
Newburyport Herald, quoted, 384.
Nolan, Mrs., 242, 245-47.
Northern Pacific Refrigerator Car Co., 61, 79, 117.
Nugent, Lord, 25. O'Donald, Frank, 63, 64, 66, 67.
O'Hara, Johnny, 329.
Olmstead, Mrs., 96 n.
Osterhaut, 278, 324. Packard, A. T., arrival in Little Missouri, 73;
and the cowboy, 73-75;
starts a newspaper, 76;
and the Deadwood stage-line, 123, 124, 170, 209-14;
a civilizing influence, 130, 131;
endeavors to introduce law and order in the Bad Lands, 131-35;
issues call for mass meeting, 136;
chief of police at Medora, 137-39;
announces demise of horse-thieves, 193, 194;
enthusiastic over the Bad Lands, 254;
his account of Roosevelt and the Devil, 271-75;
tries again for county organization, 324, 387;
firm for order and decency, 328, 329;
realizes bigness of Roosevelt, 411;
excoriates Morrill, 443;
supports Progressive cause, 473.
Paddock, Jerry, 51, 52, 62.
Paddock, Mrs., 52.
Pender, Sir John, 20-22, 25, 455.
Prairie fires, 351, 357, 358.
Presidential Convention, the, 1884, 88.
Putnam, George Haven, 359. Ranges, cattle, 91, 92;
claims on, 219;
need of law of, 220.
Religion, in the Bad Lands, 325-28.
Reuter, John, 16;
and Riley Luffsey, 63, 64;
returns to old occupations, 169;
one of Roosevelt's scow-hands, 338, 339;
and the Marquis, 347;
becomes Progressive, 473.
Roberts, Lloyd, 456.
Roberts, Margaret, in, 112, 258-60, 456.
Robins, Captain, 160, 189;
his bout with Sewall, 161-64.
Robinson, Douglas, 458.
Roderick, Mrs., 52.
Roosevelt, Anna, 104-06.
Roosevelt, James, 40, 70.
Roosevelt, Theodore, arrives in Little Missouri, 3-5;
his reason for going to the Bad Lands, 8;
starts on buffalo hunt, 12-14;
gets an extra saddle horse, 16, 17;
enjoys talks with Gregor Lang, 19, 24-28;
hunting buffalo, 28-39;
desirous of buying a large farm, 39;
interested in ranching projects, 40, 41;
secures two partners, 42, 43;
gives check for fourteen thousand dollars without receipt, 43;
kills his buffalo, 44-46;
relished things blood-curdling, 47;
signs contract with Sylvane and Merrifield, 69, 70, 479, 480;
his cattle venture is disapproved of by family, 70;
enters upon third term in New York Legislature, 81, 82;
death of mother and wife, 82;
of public activities of, 82, 83, 87, 88;
refuses to join Mugwumps, 88, 172, 208;
description of, 89;
describes Presidential Convention, 90, 91;
makes new contract, 94;
gets buckskin suit, 95, 96;
shoots antelope, 97;
enters into life of ranchman, 97, 98;
on the round-up, 99, 275-307, 400-03;
attitude of cowboys toward, 101, 102;
tried out on the Sully Trail, 103, 104;
his life as cowboy, 104, 105;
on solitary hunting trip, 105, 106;
tries cooking, 107;
his reading and writing, 108, 109;
a good mixer, 112;
and Bill Jones, 115, 116;
and the Marquis, 124;
tries to join Stuart's vigilantes, 146;
determines upon spot for home-ranch, 149;
and Mrs. Maddox, 150;
adventures at Mingusville, 150-54, 244-47;
editorial on, in the Mandan Pioneer, 154;
on the Bad Lands, in the New York Tribune, 156;
contract with Sewall and Dow, 156, 157, 481;
interviewed by the Pioneer, 158, 159;
on the ranch, 159-65;
prepares for hunting trip, 168, 169, 173, 174;
demanded as first Congressional representative of Dakota, 171;
his political standing in the East, 172;
always wanted to make the world better, 174, 219;
his hunting trip in the Big Horn Mountains, 175-88;
shoots a grizzly, 185-88;
returns to Elkhorn, 202-05;
threatened by Maunders, 207, 208;
makes campaign speeches in New York, 208;
night ride of, 216, 217;
depression of, 217-19;
starts a reform, 219, 222;
in winter on the ranch, 223-28;
hunts mountain sheep, 228-32;
forms stockmen's association, 231-34.
Returns to New York and works on "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," 235, 239;
his derby hat, 239;
illness of, 240, 241;
swims the Little Missouri, 249-52;
and his ranching companions, 252, 253;
a capable ranchman, 255;
intolerant of dishonesty and ineffectiveness, 256, 257;
how esteemed by the ranchmen, 257, 258;
and the buttermilk, 259;
and the neighbors, 260-64;
tries cooking again, 265;
trailing cattle, 268-70;
his horsemanship, 270, 271;
gentles the Devil, 271-75;
on the round-up, 275-307;
breaks bronco, 287-89;
tries Ben Butler, 289-91;
breaks point of shoulder, 290, 291, 293;
attends dinner at Mrs. Cummins's, 293, 294;
in the stampede, 295-97;
rescues Englishman with lasso, 297, 298;
his enjoyment of the cowboy life, 305, 306;
interviewed at St. Paul, 308, 309;
his life at Elkhorn, 310-12, 316, 317;
adventure with Wadsworth's dog, 315, 316;
relations with the Marquis, 336-42, 345-49;
did not intend to enter Dakota politics, 350, 351;
adventure with Indians, 353, 354;
his attitude toward the Indians, 355, 356;
breaks his arm, 359;
writes articles for press, 359;
and Mrs. Ferris, 363, 364;
anger at theft of boat, 365-71;
undertakes Life of T. H. Benton, 371;
on a thief hunt, 372-86;
representative of stockmen's association, 392-95;
his cattle prospects, 395-97;
continues his Life of Benton, 397-99;
his enjoyable summer of 1886, 401, 402;
his influence over the cowboys, 403;
Fourth of July oration, 407-11;
restlessness of, 412;
feelings at prospect of war with Mexico, 413-15;
what he got from the Western life, 416;
his human sympathy, 417;
holds up train, 418, 419;
goes goat hunting with John Willis, 419-24;
terminates engagement with Sewall and Dow, 424-28;
becomes engaged to Edith Carow, 426;
nominated for Mayor of New York City, 429;
marriage, 430;
his losses, 440, 441;
assumes leadership in stockmen's association, 446;
later visits to Bad Lands, 453, 454, 458;
books of, 453, 454;
member of Civil Service Commission, 454;
later encounters with Morrill, 457, 458;
meets Seth Bullock, 459;
member of Civil Service Commission, Police Commissioner, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 463;
in Spanish War, 463, 464;
Governor of New York, 464;
goes to Dakota as nominee for vice-presidency, 465-68;
becomes President, 468;
entertains cowboys at White House, 468, 469;
visits Medora for last time, 469-72;
death, 473;
Dakota investment, 482.
Rough Riders, the, 464.
Round-up, the, 99, 220, 275-307, 403-03.
Rowe, 313, 314.
Russell, Archibald D., 458. St. Paul Pioneer Press, its version of the Roosevelt-Mores bargain, 341.
Sewall, Bill, 87;
Roosevelt's contract with, 156, 157, 481;
his opinion of the West as a cattle-raising country, 159, 160, 206, 238, 240, 254, 306, 307, 396;
his bout with Captain Robins, 162-64;
his description of the Bad Lands, 167, 168, 190;
begs off on hunting trip, 175;
as a cowhand, 189, 190, 206, 225;
and the vigilantes, 191, 192, 195;
visited by Maunders in the dugout, 199-201;
had good knowledge of the ways of cattle, 206, 207;
consoles Roosevelt, 217-19;
refuses to ride broncos, 225-27;
on the cold of the Bad Lands, 236, 238;
describes "cattle torture," 266, 267;
superintends the house at Elkhorn, 312;
level-headed, 313;
helps clean up country of thieves, 324;
lectures Roosevelt, 359;
on a thief hunt, 372-80;
terminates engagement with Roosevelt, 424-28;
in later years, 457.
Sewall, Mrs., 310-13.
Simpson, John, 25, 385.
Sioux Falls Press, on Roosevelt, 429.
Smith, "Vic," 9 n.
Snyder, Jack, 436.
Stage-line, the Deadwood, 77, 78, 120-24, 170, 209-14, 334.
Stampede, 295-97.
Starr, Western, 303, 304, 385.
Stickney, Dr., 291-93, 325, 382, 383.
Stockmen's association, Roosevelt makes move to form, 222, 223;
formation of, 232-34;
activity of, 323, 324;
its action on prairie fires, 358;
Roosevelt representative of, 390.
Stranglers, the, 192-94.
Stuart, Granville, 144-46;
his vigilantes, 146, 147, 157-59, 192-94.
Styles in the Bad Lands, 321, 322.
Sully Trail, the, 102-04. "Tepee Bottom," 111.
Thieves, horse and cattle, 139-47;
rounding up of, 157-59, 192-94.
"Three Seven," the, 94.
"Tolu Tonic," 22.
Trimble, Richard, 40.
Truscott, J. L., 390. Valentine scrip, 61.
Vallombrosa, Antoine de. See Mores.
Van Brunt, 110.
Van Driesche, 334, 390.
Van Zander, 128, 322, 363, 457.
"V-Eye," 110.
Vigilantes, Stuart's, 146, 147, 157-59, 192-94;
other, 192, 194-96.
Vine, Captain, 10, 21.
Vine, Darius, 21, 53, 54.
Vine, Frank, 10, 22-24, 56, 61;
his joke on Packard, 73-75.
Vines, the, 456. Wadsworth dog, the, 315, 316.
Wadsworth family, 15, 25.
Walker, J. B., 360.
Wannigan. See Reuter.
Watterson, Walter, 275.
Wharfenberger, 375.
Wibaux, Pierre, 242.
Williams, Bill, 7, 9;
description of, 50, 51;
thief, 54, 81;
starts freight-line, 120;
and stage-line, 122;
in the gay life of Medora, 128;
hissaloon, 319, 320;
a bona-fide "bad man," 320;
and the preacher, 325 n.;
the last of his saloon, 454.
Willis, John, 419-24. 454, 469.
Wister, Owen, The Virginian, 214 n. Young, Farmer, 315.[Back to Contents] Footnote 1: Roosevelt tells, in his Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, of the most notable of these, a former scout and Indian fighter named "Vic" Smith, whose exploits were prodigious.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 2: "I would start to make biscuits and as usual go about putting shortening into them, which father didn't like. We'd argue over it a little, and I would say, 'Good biscuits can't be made without grease.' Then he'd say, 'Well, use elbow grease.' I'd say then, 'Well, all right, I'll try it.' Then I'd go to work and knead the dough hard (on purpose), understanding, of course, that kneading utterly spoils biscuit dough, whether there is shortening in it or not. The result is a pan of adamantine biscuits which, of course, I blame on him."—Lincoln Lang.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 3: See Appendix.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 4: A year later, Packard, as Chief of Police, officiated at what was euphemistically known as a "necktie party" at which his companion of that ride was the guest of honor.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 5: The buckskin suit which was still doing service thirty years later, was made under the supervision of Mrs. Maddox by her niece, now Mrs. Olmstead, of Medora.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 6: "As I recall Bill, his stories were never half as bad as Frank [Vine's], for instance. Where he shone particularly was in excoriating those whom he did not like. In this connection he could—and did—use the worst expressions I have ever heard. He was a born cynic, who said his say in 'plain talk,' not 'langwidge.' For all that, he was filled to the neck with humor, and was a past-master in the art of repartee, always in plain talk, remember. Explain it if you can. Bill was roundly hated by many because he had a way of talking straight truth. He had an uncanny knack of seeing behind the human scenery of the Bad Lands, and always told right out what he saw. That is why they were all afraid of him."—Lincoln Lang.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 7: "He held the grudge all right, and it may have been largely because father sided against him in regard to the killing. But I think the main reason was because father refused to take any hand in bringing about a consolidation of interests. Pender was a tremendously rich man and had the ear of some of the richest men in England, such as the Duke of Sutherland and the Marquis of Tweeddale."—Lincoln Lang.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 8: "I am inclined to doubt the truth of this story. Mrs. Maddox was a terror only to those who took her wrong or tried to put it over her. Normally she was a very pleasant woman with a good, strong sense of humor. My impression is she took a liking to T. R. that time I took him there to be measured for his suit. If she ever spoke as above, she must have been on the war-path about something else at the time."—Lincoln Lang.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 9: It was Packard's stage-line which brought Scipio le Moyne (in Owen Wister's novel) from the Black Hills to Medora to become the substitute cook of the Virginian's mutinous "outfit." The cook whom the Virginian kicked off the train at Medora, because he was too anxious to buy a bottle of whiskey, is said to have been a man named Macdonald. He remained in the Bad Lands as cook for one of the ranches, but he was such an inveterate drinker that "Nitch" Kendley was forced to take drastic measures. Finding him unconscious one day, just outside of Medora, he tied him hand and foot to the sagebrush. The cook struggled twelve hours in the broiling sun before he could free himself. Tradition has it that he did not touch another drop of liquor for three years.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 10: The andirons are still doing service at the ranch of Howard Eaton and his brothers in Wolf, Wyoming.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 11: "I never was bothered by gumbo in the Bad Lands. There wasn't a sufficient proportion of clay in the soil. But out on the prairie, oh, my martyred Aunt Jane's black and white striped cat!"—A. T. Packard.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 12: Joe Ferris was made aware of this scornful reference to his judgment through a cowboy, Carl Hollenberg, who overheard it, and sixteen years later came into Joe's store one September day shouting, "That fool, Joe Ferris, says that Roosevelt will be President some day!" The point was that Roosevelt had that week succeeded McKinley in the White House.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 13: A celebrated murder case in Boston.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 14: Roosevelt: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. "Am inclined to think that this assertion of Mr. Roosevelt's would be open to criticism on the part of the real old-time cowpunchers. Much depended upon the weather, of course, but in a general way most of them regarded the work as anything but a picnic. Usually, it came closer to being 'Hell,' before we got through with it, as was the case on that particular round-up in 1885, when Mr. Roosevelt was along. Rained much of the time, and upon one occasion kept at it for a week on end. Tied the whole outfit up for several days at one point and I recall we had to wring the water out of our blankets every night before retiring. The boys liked to work on general round-ups, hard and all as they were, mainly because it brought them into contact with the boys from other ranges, so that they had a chance to renew old acquaintances. Generally the boys were all inclined to be a little wild at the start, or until cooled down by a few days of hard work. After that things got into a steady groove, eighteen hours per day in the saddle being nothing unusual. "At the start, the round-up bore many of the aspects of a county fair, just as Mr. Roosevelt states, and unless the trip proved to be unusually hard there was always more or less horse-play in the air."—Lincoln Lang.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 15: Autobiography.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 16: Roosevelt gives an admirable description of a round-up in his Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 17: "During the course of the Barnes-Roosevelt trial at Syracuse in 1916, Roosevelt was taking dinner one evening at the house of Mr. Horace S. Wilkinson. Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University, who was present, said: 'Mr. Roosevelt, my attention was first directed to you by an account of a scene when you were with the cowboys. It told of your trying to get astride a bronco, and it was a struggle. But you finally conquered him, and away you went in a cloud of dust.' "'Very true, very true,' said Roosevelt, 'but I rode him all the way from the tip of his ear to the end of his tail.'"—Rev. D. B. Thompson, Syracuse, N.Y.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 18: Toronto was the name of Lodge's hunter.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 19: "Whoever wrote that was badly off his base. The simon-pure cowpuncher would not accept a self-cocker as a gift. They laughed at them in fact. Once, on a bet, a cowpuncher shot off all six shots with his single-action Colt .45 while his opponent was getting off three with his self-cocker."—Lincoln Lang.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 20: The Dickinson Press burst into verse in describing the exploits of one of the preachers. "Of a gospel preacher we now will tell
Who started from Glendive to save souls from hell.
At the Little Missouri he struck a new game,
With the unregenerate, 'Honest John' is its name. "He indulged too much in the flowing bowls,
And forgot all about the saving of souls,
But 'dropped' his three hundred, slept sweetly and well,
And let the Little Missourians wander to ——
that place whose main principles of political economy are
brimstone and caloric." But the verses tell only half the story. As Sylvane Ferris relates it Bill Williams, conniving with Jess Hogue to fleece the preacher, gave him the impression that he too was losing heavily; and actually shed tears. The preacher was heard to murmur, as he staggered into the night, "I don't mind losing my own money, but I am so sorry for that nice Mr. Williams."[Back to Main Text] Footnote 21: The thieves were tried at Mandan in August, 1886. The German, known as "Dutch Chris," was acquitted, but Finnegan, and Bernstead, known as "the half-breed," were sentenced to twenty-five months in the Bismarck Penitentiary. Finnegan glared at Roosevelt as he passed him in the court room. "If I'd had any show at all," he cried, "you'd have sure had to fight!" That was no doubt true, but his anger evidently wore off in the cool of the prison, for a little later he wrote Roosevelt a long and friendly epistle, which was intended to explain many things: In the first place I did not take your boat Mr. Roosevelt because I wanted to steal something, no indeed, when I took that vessel I was labouring under the impression, die dog or eat the hachette.... When I was a couple of miles above your ranch the boat I had sprung a leak and I saw I could not make the Big Missouri in it in the shape that it was in. I thought of asking assistance of you, but I supposed you had lost some saddles and blamed me for taking them. Now there I was with a leaky boat and under the circumstances what was I two do, two ask you for help, the answer I expected two get was two look down the mouth of a Winchester. I saw your boat and made up my mind two get possession of it. I was bound two get out of that country cost what it might, when people talk lynch law and threaten a persons life, I think that it is about time to leave. I did not want to go back up river on the account that I feared a mob.... I have read a good many of your sketches of ranch life in the papers since I have been here, and they interested me deeply. Yours sincerely. &c. P.S. Should you stop over at Bismarck this fall make a call to the Prison. I should be glad to meet you.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 22: Willis was a great teller of tales. See Hunting the Grizzly, by Theodore Roosevelt (The Sagamore Series, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 216 ff.), for the most lurid of his yarns.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 23: When Roosevelt came to Helena in 1911, John Willis was one of the crowd that greeted him. Willis clapped Roosevelt on the back familiarly. "I made a man out of you," he cried. Quick as a flash, came Roosevelt's retort: "Yes. John made a man out of me, but I made a Christian out of John."[Back to Main Text] Footnote 24: See Appendix for a statement of Roosevelt's cattle investment.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 25: The account of Roosevelt's triumphant return to Medora is taken verbatim from contemporary newspapers.[Back to Main Text] |
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