The Mammoth Book of the West (63 page)

Apache Kid
276
,
460

Apache Pass
347–8
,
522

Arapaho
360
,
361
,
363
,
375

Arikara
56

Ashley, General H.
55
,
56

Astor, John Jacob
53
,
54
,
57–8
,
520

Astoria
53
,
54

Austin, Moses
62

Austin, Stephen F.
62–3
,
64
,
66
,
150
,
313
,
519

Autry, Gene
506–7

Averill, Jim
237–8

Baca, Elfego xiv,
298–9

Bailey, George
378–9

Bannock
86
,
429–30

barbed wire
204

Bass, Sam
315–16

Batts, Thomas
10

Bean, Judge Roy
260–1

Bear Flag Revolt
112–13
,
521

beaver
50–2
,
58

Becknell, William
59–60

Beckwourth, James P.
55
,
57

Beecher Island
390

Beef Bonanza
152–70
;
196–205
,
226
,
525

Bent, Charles and William
60

Benteen, Captain Frederick
424
,
426–7

Big Foot
453–4
,
455

Billy the Kid
see
Bonney, William H.

Bisbee
267
,
527

Black Americans

cowboys
177
,
188

farmers
467

gold miners
117–18

outlaws
274–6

soldiers
274–5
,
452
,
456

Black Bart
see
Bole, Charles

Black Hills of Dakota xiii,
126
,
415
,
419–20

Black Kettle
362
,
363
,
364
,
389
,
403
,
404

Blackfeet
41–2
,
52
,
57
,
58
,
341
,
383

“The Blessing Way”
4
,
349–50

Bole, Charles
138
,
269
,
278–9

Bonney, William H. (Billy the Kid)
207–21
,
524

Boone, Daniel
21–2
,
23
,
27
,
33
,
517

Boonesborough
22
,
26–7

Boot Hill
174

boots and spurs
192

Bosque Redondo
349

Bowie, Jim
67
,
69
,
70
,
71
,
72

Bozeman Trail
366
,
368
,
380

Brannan, Sam
113
,
116

Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea)
26

Bridger, Jim
55
,
58
,
59
,
80–1
,
108
,
369
,
519

Brisbin, James S.
197
,
524

Britain

colonialism
7–9

and the War of Independence
24–8

broncbusting
185–6

Brown, Henry Newton
297

Buck, Rufus
277–8

buffalo
382–4

Buffalo Bill
see
Cody, William F.

Buffum, Edward
266

bunkhouses
186–7

“Buntline Special”
312

Burrows, Rube and Jim
319

Butch Cassidy
see
Parker, Robert LeRoy

Butterfield, John
135

Calamity Jane
see
Canarray, Martha

California
115
,
521

California Gold Rush
113–18

Canarray, Martha (Calamity Jane)
332

Candy Ponting, Tom
150–1

Canton, Frank
237
,
238
,
242

Carpenter, Julia Gage
468–70

Carrington, Colonel Henry
367
,
368
,
369
,
370
,
371
,
373
,
375
,
378
,
379

Carson, Kit
58
,
59
,
80
,
228
,
349
,
350
,
522

Cartier, Jacques
6
,
50–1
,
514

cattle

Beef Bonanza
152–70
,
196–205
,
226
,
525

branding
183–4

bulldogging
499–500

castration
184

cattle/sheep feuds
228–32

cutting out
182

drives
161–70

introduction to America
147

mavericks
184

river crossings
165–6

round-ups
181–4

rustling
236
,
481
,
482

stampedes
164

Texas Longhorn
150
,
151

tick fever
151–2

cattle barons
200–1

cattle towns
171–80

Central Pacific
143

Champion, Nathan
239
,
240–3
,
245–7

Cherokee
23
,
25–6
,
343
,
344

Cherokee Bill
274–5

Cheyenne
359–65
,
375
,
385
,
427
,
428

Cheyenne Club
200–1
,
204
,
226

Chinese
118
,
143
,
525

Chinook
84

Chiricahua Apache
345
,
347
,
350
,
431–45

Chisholm Trail
157
,
523

Chivington, Colonel John
359
,
360–1
,
362
,
363
,
365

Christie, Ned
276–7

chuckwagons
162

Clantons
307
,
308
,
309–10
,
311–12
,
524

Clark, George Rogers
27–8

Clark, William
52
see also
Lewis and Clark expedition

Clay, John
201

Clements, Arch
282

closing of the frontier
459
,
525

Clover, Sam T.
239
,
241–2

Clum, John P.
262
,
432
,
433
,
446

Cochise
346–7
,
348
,
350–2
,
523

Code of the West
252–6
,
259–60

Cody, William F. (Buffalo Bill)
138
,
258–9
,
384
,
495
,
496–8
,
504
,
524

Colorado
119

Colt revolvers
257

Columbus, Christopher
5
,
147
,
514

Comanche
314
,
350
,
405–14

Cornstock Lode
119

Concord coach
135

Connor, General Patrick E.
366

Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de
6

Cortina, Juan Nepomuceno
279

Coulter, John
42
,
52
,
518

Courtright, “Longhaired Jim”
297

cowboys

broncbusting
185–6

dress code
149
,
191–4

life on the range
186–91
,
226–7

life on the trail
161–70

rodeos
494
,
498–501

unionization
187–8

violence
172
,
175
,
178–80
,
295

working cattle
181–4

Crazy Horse
343
,
374
,
376
,
416
,
422
,
425
,
428
,
524

Cripple Creek
126
,
525

Crockett, Davy
71–2

Croghan, George
15

Crook, General George
351
,
420–1
,
422
,
428
,
429–30
,
440–1
,
442
,
443
,
446

Crow, Walter J.
252
,
524

Crow xiii,
57

Cumberland Gap
20
,
22

Custer, Colonel George

Armstrong
126
,
386–7
,
390–1
,
395
,
396
,
400–1
,
404
,
416
,
419
,
421
,
423
,
424
,
426
,
427
,
523

Dalton brothers
290–1
,
292
,
333
,
525

Daly, John
297–8

Dart, Isom
274

Daugherty, Roy
461

Daves, Delmer
509

Davis, Captain Jonathan R.
252

de Onate, Juan
6
,
7
,
227
,
516

de Soto, Hernando
6
,
516

de Vaca, Cabeza
5

Delaware
26
,
28

Deseret
108
,
109

disease
8
,
339

Dodge City
159
,
172
,
174
,
304–5
,
311

Donner Party
82
,
96–102

Doolin, Bill
279
,
291
,
292
,
301
,
333
,
525–6

dry farming
465–6

Duffield, George
164–5

Dumont, Elenor
330–1

Earp, Morgan
308
,
309
,
310

Earp, Virgil
306
,
308
,
309
,
310

Earp, Wyatt
303–12
,
504
,
513
,
527

Eastwood, Clint
511–12
,
513

Edgar, Henry
120–6

Ellsworth
159
,
172
,
173
,
174
,
296

European colonialism
4–11

“Exodusters”
467
,
524

Fallam, Robert
10

Farnham, Thomas Jefferson
79

Fetterman Massacre
376–8
,
522

Fetterman, William Judd
374
,
375

Fink, Mike
129–30
,
519

Finley, John
20
,
21
,
22

firearms
256–9

Colt revolvers
257

Kentucky rifle
13
,
256

Springfield rifle
379

Winchester rifle
258–9

Fisher, John King
296–7

flatboats
128

Florida
5
,
18
,
519

Fonda, Henry
507
,
508

Ford, Bob
288–9
,
331

Ford, John
507
,
509
,
510

Forsyth, Colonel George A.
390
,
454
,
455

Fort Laramie Council (1866)
367–8
,
522

Fort Phil Kearny
369
,
370–5
,
378
,
379
,
380

Fredonia Revolt (1826)
64–5

Frémont, John
59
,
80
,
521

Frewen, Moreton
199

frontier spirit xi-xii

fur trade
21
,
50–9

gambling
174
,
175
,
330
,
331

Garrett, Pat
217
,
218
,
220–1
,
317
,
526

German immigrants
11
,
74

Geronimo
3–4
,
345
,
348
,
351–2
,
431–5
,
437
,
439
,
440–9
,
489
,
526

Ghost Dance
451–2
,
456

Glover, Ridgeway
369–70

Godfrey, Edward S.
391–403

gold prospecting
112–27
,
359
,
419
,
521
,
525

Goodnight, Charles
159–60
,
162
,
187
,
188
,
202
,
203
,
204
,
527

Goodnight-Loving Trail
160
,
522

Great American Desert
46
,
48

Great Appalachian Valley
10
,
11

Great Blizzard (1886–7)
223–5

Great Grasshopper Year (1874)
463

Great Plains
462–70

Great Sioux Uprising
353–8

Greenwood, Caleb
59

Gros Ventre
55
,
341

Guerin, Elizabeth Jane
189
,
331–2

gunfights
252
,
254–5

guns
see
firearms

Hardin, John Wesley
271–3
,
315