Robert Vaughn

DEDICATION.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Then and Now; Or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies .

FROM HOME TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

CROSSING THE PLAINS.

ON A STAMPEDE TO THE YELLOWSTONE.

THE DISCOVERY OF ALDER CREEK, THE RICHEST GULCH ON THE GLOBE.

THE JAMES STUART PROSPECTING PARTY.

FROM ALDER GULCH TO LAST CHANCE.

FROM THE MINES TO THE FARM.

A LETTER TO MY LITTLE BABE.

FROM THE FARM TO THE CITY OF GREAT FALLS.

MONTANA'S PIONEERS.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIFE OF THE PIONEER.

THE INDIAN PRAYING.

INDIANS STEALING MY HORSES.

THE GREAT SUN RIVER STAMPEDE.

A TRIP FROM VIRGINIA CITY TO THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION ON THE MISSOURI RIVER IN 1866.

MY FIRST BUFFALO HUNT.

TOM CAMPBELL RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.

EDWARD A. LEWIS' EARLY DAYS IN MONTANA.

A BRAVE PIEGAN WAR CHIEF.

BLOODY BATTLES AND TRAGEDIES IN THE SUN RIVER VALLEY.

CHARLES CHOQUETTE COMING TO MONTANA IN 1843.

A TRIP TO THE TWENTY-EIGHT-MILE SPRING STATION.

JOHN LARGENT'S EARLY DAYS IN MONTANA.

A VISIT TO FORT BENTON.

JOHN D. BROWN. A NARRATIVE OF HIS EARLY EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST.

A PIONEER MINISTER.

AN OLD LETTER.

WARREN C. GILLETTE'S EARLY EXPERIENCES IN MONTANA.

A MEAL IN THE INDIAN CAMP.

THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF WHAT IS NOW MONTANA.

MONTANA THEN AND NOW.

A SAMPLE OF THE PIONEERS OF MONTANA.

THE INDIAN.

THE SIOUX WAR.

GENERAL SHERMAN'S LETTERS.

THE NEZ PERCES WAR.

AN ENGLISH TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN SCOUT.

RETURNING OF SITTING BULL FROM CANADA.

THE INDIAN MESSIAH AND THE GHOST DANCE.

AN INDIAN LEGEND.

THE ROUND-UP.

TRAVELING "THEN" AND TRAVELING "NOW."

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.

FROM THE PROSPECTOR'S HOLE TO THE GREATEST MINING CAMP ON EARTH.

Transcribers' Notes

Transcriber's note: Cover created by Transcriber, using illustrations from the original book, and placed in the Public Domain.

THEN AND NOW;
OR,
Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies.

Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana.

INDIANS AND INDIAN WARS.

The Past and Present of the Rocky Mountain Country.
1864–1900.

BY
ROBERT VAUGHN.

MINNEAPOLIS:
Tribune Printing Company.
1900.

Copyrighted, 1900.
BY
ARVONIA ELIZABETH VAUGHN.