title="19">XIX. Medora — "Styles in the Bad Lands" — The coming of law — The preachers — Packard's parson — Johnny O'Hara. 318

Chapter XX. De Mores the undaunted — Genealogy of the Marquis — Roosevelt and the Marquis — Hostility — The first clash — Indictment of the Marquis — The Marquis's trial — The Marquis sees red — Peace. 331

Chapter XXI. Red man and white — Roosevelt's adventure — Good Indian, dead Indian — Prairie fires — Sewall delivers a lecture — The testing of Mrs. Joe — Mrs. Joe takes hold. 350

Chapter XXII. The theft of the boat — Redhead Finnegan — Preparations for pursuit — Departure — "Hands up!" — Capture of the thieves — Marooned — Cross country to jail — Arrival in Dickinson — "The only damn fool". 365

Chapter XXIII. Medora's first election — The celebration — Miles City meeting — Roosevelt's cattle prospects — "His upper lip is stiff" — Completing "Benton" — The summer of 1886 — Influence over cowboys — "A Big Day" — Oratory — Roosevelt on Americanism — "You will be President". 387

Chapter XXIV. A troop of Rough Riders — Premonitions of trouble — The hold-up — The Cœur d'Alênes — Hunting white goats — John Willis — Elkhorn breaks up — Facing east. 412

Chapter XXV. The bad winter — The first blizzard — Destruction of the cattle — The spring flood — The boneyard. 429

Chapter XXVI. Roosevelt's losses — Morrill vs. Myers — Roosevelt takes a hand — A country of ruins — New schemes of the Marquis — The fading of Medora. 440

Chapter XXVII. Bill Jones — Old friends — Seth Bullock — Death of the Marquis — Roosevelt's progress — Return as Governor — Medora celebrates — The "cowboy bunch" — Return as President — Death of Bill Jones — The Bad Lands to-day. 453

Appendix. 479

Index. 484

ILLUSTRATIONS.

• Theodore Roosevelt on the Round-up, 1885
  Photograph by Ingersoll, Buffalo, Minnesota Frontispiece
• Maltese Cross Ranch-House 16
• View from the Door of the Ranch-House 16
• The Prairie at the Edge of the Bad Lands
  Photograph by Holmboe, Bismarck, N. D. 32
• "Broken Country"
  Photograph by Holmboe 32
• Roosevelt in 1883 48
• Medora in the Winter of 1883-84 48
• "Dutch Wannigan" and Frank O'Donald 64
• Scene of the Killing of Riley Luffsey 64
• Antoine de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Mores
  By courtesy of L. A. Huffman, Miles City, Montana public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@24317@[email protected]#img011" title="link