The Mammoth Book of the West (65 page)

Satank
389
,
409

Satanta
388–9
,
408
,
409
,
411
,
413–14

Scioto Company
30–1

Scotch–Irish immigrants
11–12

Seven Years’ War
15–18

Shawnee
23
,
26–7
,
28
,
47

sheep farming
227–32

Sheridan, General Philip H.
390–1
,
404
,
421

sheriffs
see
lawmen

Sherman, General William T.
386
,
408

Short, Luke
304
,
307
,
311

Shoshoni
39–40
,
86

Shoshoni Mike
460

Sieber, Al
481

silver mining
126
,
307

Sioux
38
,
342
,
353–7
,
369–78
,
379
,
415–27
,
428
,
451–6
,
522

Siringo, Charles
318
,
319–27

Sitting Bull
416
,
422
,
428
,
451–3
,
497
,
524

Slade, Jack
264–5

slavery
72
,
118
,
315

Slye, Leonard (Roy Rogers)
507

Smith, Jedediah
55
,
519

Smith, Joseph
103–4
,
105

Smith, Tom
298

sod houses
464–5

Springfield rifle
379

Staked Plains
201–2
,
407
,
409–10

Starr, Belle
276
,
282
,
290
,
334–5
,
525

Starr, Henry
293
,
526

steamboats
130–1
,
134

stetsons
191–2

Stevens, Jennie “Little Britches”
333–4

Stewart, James
507
,
508

stock detectives
236

Stuart, Granville
200
,
225
,
233–6

Stuenenberg, Frank
327
,
526

Sublette brothers
55
,
78

Sundance Kid
see
Longbaugh, Harry

Sundown, Jackson
499

Sutton–Taylor feud
272

Swan Land and Cattle

Company
198
,
226
,
490

Taylor, William E.
88–95

telegraphy
137–8

temperance movement
470–1

Teton Sioux
38

Texan Revolution
65–72

Texas
62–75
,
149
,
152
,
520

Texas Longhom
150
,
151

Texas Panhandle
201–2

Texas Rangers
313–317
,
519

Thomas, Heck
276
,
291
,
292
,
298
,
300
,
301

Thompson, William
385

Tilghman, Bill
291–2
,
293
,
300
,
301–2
,
333–4
,
461
,
504
,
527

Tombstone
126
,
306–10

train robbery
283–4

Travis, William B.
65
,
66
,
67
,
68–9
,
70
,
71

Treaty of Paris (1783)
29
,
518

Tubbs, “Poker Alice”
331

Tunstall, John Henry
207
,
210–11

Turner, Frederick Jackson
459

Twain, Mark
116
,
138–42
,
264–5

Union Pacific
143
,
474–6

US
7
th Cavalry
391–403
,
416
,
417–19
,
421
,
423–7
,
452
,
454–5

Utah
109
,
111

Ute
430

vaqueros
148
,
149
,
188–9

Victorio
348
,
350
,
433–4

vigilantism
117
,
212
,
233–6
,
237–8
,
239–44
,
263–7
,
328
,
461
,
524

violence in the West
251–67

Virginia
7–8
,
29
“Voyage of Discovery”
34–43
,
518

Wagon Box Fight
379

wagons
81

walkdowns (gunfights)
254–5

Walker, Captain Samuel
314

Walker, Dr Thomas
20
,
517

Wallace, Lew
216–17
,
220

Wallace, William (“Big Foot”)
314

Wampanoags
8
,
516

War of 1812
47
,
53
,
54

Washington, George
15–16
,
24
,
26
,
31
,
32

Washita battle
391–403
,
510

water supplies
465

Watson, Ella
237–8

Wayne, General Anthony
32
,
518

Wayne, John
see
Marion Morrison

waystations
138–42

Wells Fargo
142

wells and windmills
465

Western movies
503–14

Western Trail
159

whiskey
175

Whitman, Marcus
80

Wichita
159
,
304

Wild Bill Hickok see Hickok, James Butler

Wild Bunch
279
,
319
,
480–5
,
487–8

Wild West shows
495
,
496–8
,
526

Wilderness Road
21
,
22
,
269

Willamette Valley
79

Winchester rifle
258–9

Wolcott, Major Frank
239
,
241
,
242
,
243

women in the West
329–35

cowpunchers
189

cross-dressing
331–2

female suffrage
471
,
502

gamblers
330
,
331

homesteaders
468–70

outlaws
332–5

prostitution
117
,
176–7
,
330

rodeo riders
492–3

Wood, Abraham
10
,
516

woodhawks
131–3

woodlanders
12–13

Wounded Knee Massacre
454–6
,
510
,
525

Wovoka
451

Wyeth, Nathaniel
78
,
499

Wyllyams, Frederick xiii,
387–8

Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association
204
,
236
,
238
,
244
,
490

Yazoo Strip
33
,
518

Yellowstone National Park
52

Young, Brigham
104
,
105–6
,
107–8
,
109
,
110

Younger, Thomas Coleman

(Cole)
282
,
283
,
287
,
288
,
289
,
334
,
498

Zunis
6
,
345