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

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Author

Vaughn, Robert, 1836-1918

Title

Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana

Credits

Produced by Mark C. Orton, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

F721: United States local history: Rocky Mountains. Yellowstone National Park

Subject

Montana -- History -- 19th century

Category

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eBook-No.

47334

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47334

Release Date

November 12, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THEN AND NOW; OR, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies.
2. 2.DEDICATION.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS.
6. 6.Then and Now; Or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies .
7. 7.FROM HOME TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
8. 8.CROSSING THE PLAINS.
9. 9.ON A STAMPEDE TO THE YELLOWSTONE.
10. 10.THE DISCOVERY OF ALDER CREEK, THE RICHEST GULCH ON THE GLOBE.
11. 11.THE JAMES STUART PROSPECTING PARTY.
12. 12.FROM ALDER GULCH TO LAST CHANCE.
13. 13.FROM THE MINES TO THE FARM.
14. 14.A LETTER TO MY LITTLE BABE.
15. 15.FROM THE FARM TO THE CITY OF GREAT FALLS.
16. 16.MONTANA’S PIONEERS.
17. 17.THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIFE OF THE PIONEER.
18. 18.THE INDIAN PRAYING.
19. 19.INDIANS STEALING MY HORSES.
20. 20.THE GREAT SUN RIVER STAMPEDE.
21. 21.A TRIP FROM VIRGINIA CITY TO THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION ON THE MISSOURI RIVER IN 1866.
22. 22.MY FIRST BUFFALO HUNT.
23. 23.TOM CAMPBELL RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.
24. 24.EDWARD A. LEWIS’ EARLY DAYS IN MONTANA.
25. 25.A BRAVE PIEGAN WAR CHIEF.
26. 26.BLOODY BATTLES AND TRAGEDIES IN THE SUN RIVER VALLEY.
27. 27.CHARLES CHOQUETTE COMING TO MONTANA IN 1843.
28. 28.A TRIP TO THE TWENTY-EIGHT-MILE SPRING STATION.
29. 29.JOHN LARGENT’S EARLY DAYS IN MONTANA. — A PECULIAR INCIDENT. — A BEAR STORY.
30. 30.A VISIT TO FORT BENTON.
31. 31.JOHN D. BROWN. A NARRATIVE OF HIS EARLY EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST.
32. 32.A PIONEER MINISTER.
33. 33.AN OLD LETTER. — A STRANGER IN THE LAND.
34. 34.WARREN C. GILLETTE’S EARLY EXPERIENCES IN MONTANA.
35. 35.A MEAL IN THE INDIAN CAMP.
36. 36.THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF WHAT IS NOW MONTANA.
37. 37.MONTANA THEN AND NOW.
38. 38.A SAMPLE OF THE PIONEERS OF MONTANA.
39. 39.THE INDIAN.
40. 40.THE SIOUX WAR.
41. 41.GENERAL SHERMAN’S LETTERS. — LETTER I. — LETTER II. — LETTER III. — LETTER IV.
42. 42.THE NEZ PERCES WAR.
43. 43.AN ENGLISH TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN SCOUT. — General Baden-Powell
44. 44.RETURNING OF SITTING BULL FROM CANADA. — GENERAL TERRY’S SPEECH TO THE SIOUX. — SITTING BULL’S SPEECH TO THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION. — THE REE’S SPEECH. — SPEECH BY A YANKTON SIOUX WHO WAS IN THE MINNESOTA MASSACRE. — SPEECH BY A SQUAW. — CROW’S SPEECH.
45. 45.THE INDIAN MESSIAH AND THE GHOST DANCE.
46. 46.AN INDIAN LEGEND.
47. 47.THE ROUND-UP.
48. 48.TRAVELING “THEN” AND TRAVELING “NOW.”
49. 49.YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. — YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. — FIRST DAY’S RIDE.
50. 50.FROM THE PROSPECTOR’S HOLE TO THE GREATEST MINING CAMP ON EARTH.
51. 51.Transcribers’ Notes

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