Indian War veterans: memories of army life and campaigns in the West, 1864-1898

Part I: Army life in the West. Press interview with five veterans --

A typical entry in Winners of the West --

Finding the right drum major, 1872 / John Cox --

Ten years a buffalo soldier / Perry A. Hayman --

Cavalry duty in the southwest in the 1870s / George S. Raper --

Wyoming service in the 1870s / George F. Tinkham --

Relocating with the Sixth U.S. Infantry / William Fetter --

Battling in the Little Bighorn / Alonzo Stringham --

Fourteen years in the army, 1881-1895 / Ernst A. Selander --

Fifth Cavalry service / Charles M. Hildreth --

An incident at Fort Abraham Lincoln in 1884 / Archibald Dickson --

Reminiscences of an Eighth U. S. cavalryman, 1883-1888 / Frederick C. Kurz --

Twelve years in the Eighteenth Infantry / Phillip Schreiber --

Cemeteries at Fort Laramie / Michael M. O'Sullivan --

Life as a rookie / John T. Stokes --

A boyhood at Tongue River Cantonment and Fort Keogh, 1877-1882 / Dominick J. O'Malley --

The border-to-border march of the Eighth Cavalry, 1888 / William G. Wilkinson --

Sidelights of the Eighth Cavalry's historic march / Soren P. Jepson --

Memories of Old Fort Cummings, New Mexico Territory / Wolsey A. Sloan --

The Fort Custer dance / Maurice J. O'Leary --

Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1882 / Martin J. Weber --

Incidents of army life at Fort Wingate, 1892-1893 / Frederick H. Krause.

Part II: Battles and campaigns. Northern plains and prairies. The Fetterman tragedy, 1866 / Timothy O'Brien --

Note on the Fetterman fight / Alexander Brown --

The relief of Fort Phil Kearny and Fort C. F. Smith, 1866 / Bartholomew Fitzpatrick --

Guarding the Union Pacific / Laurence W. Aldrich --

A reality of warfare / Samuel H. Bently --

A skirmish at Heart River, Dakota, 1872 / John W. Jenkins --

The Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 / William Foster Norris --

Notes on the Yellowstone Expedition / John Walsh --

A buffalo stampede during the Northern Pacific Survey Expedition, 1873 / William D. Nugent --

Bates's fight in the Owl Range, 1874 / James H. Rhymer --

Service at Red Cloud Agency, Nebraska, 1874-1875 / Lines P. Wasson --

With the Third Cavalry in 1876 / Oliver C.C. Pollock --

Fighting at Powder River and Rosebud Creek, 1876 / Phineas S. Towne --

Attacking the Cheyennes at Powder River in 1876 / John Lang --

A Sioux War diary / George S. Howard --

Combatting Cheyennes at Powder River and the Red Fork, 1876 / James N. Connely --

Campaigning with the Seventh Infantry in 1876 / George C. Berry --

Memories of the Little Bighorn, 1876 / Jacob Hetler --

Some thoughts about the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Theodore W. Goldin --

With the water carriers at the Little Bighorn / William D. Nugent --

Fought with Reno on the bluffs / Henry M. Brinkerhoff --

Mutilation of Custer's dead / William D. Nugent --

News of the Custer Battle reaches Fort Randall, Dakota / John E. Cox --

The skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, 1876 / Chris Madsen --

Witness to Cody at Warbonnet Creek, diary entries / James B. Frew --

Surrounding Red Cloud and Red Leaf / Luther North --

Battle of the Red Fork, 1876 / James S. McClellan --

Dismounting and disarming the Agency Sioux along the Missouri River / Theodore W. Goldin --

Scouting with Lieutenant Baldwin in Montana, 1876 / Joseph Culbertson --

Fighting Crazy Horse in the Wolf Mountains, 1877 / Luther Barker --

Surrender of Chief Dull Knife (Morning Star), 1878 / Louis DeWitt --

An incident of the Fort Robinson Outbreak, 1879 / James E. Snepp --

An encounter with the Cree Indians near the Canadian Line, 1881 / Lawrence Lea --

On patrol in Montana and Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881 / John C. Delemont --

The killing of Sitting Bull, 1890 / James Connelly --

Arrest and death of Sitting Bull / Matthew F. Steele --

Two letters regarding Fort Yates and Sitting Bull's death, 1890 / George B. DuBois --

Scouting for Sioux in 1890 / John Rovinsky --

Time at Wounded Knee / William J. Slaughter --

An army medic at Wounded Knee / Andrew M. Flynn --

A memory of the Pine Ridge Campaign / Henry B. Becker --

A trooper's vignette / Frank Sturr --

On the Pine Ridge Campaign / Grant C. Topping --

Infantry operations at Pine Ridge / Richard T. Burns --

Recollections of the Pine Ridge Campaign and Wounded Knee / August Hettinger --

Incidents of Wounded Knee / Joseph Monnett --

Maneuvers in Montana during the Ghost Dance Crisis / James E. Wilson --

The Leech Lake Uprising of 1898 / Harry V. Wurdemann --

Central and Southern Plains. Supplies for Colorado in 1864 / Elias J. Quick --

Campaigning in Colorado and New Mexico, 1860s / Luke Cahill --

Service with the Eighteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry in 1867 / Henderson Lafayette Burgess --

On the Kansas plains during Hancock's Campaign, 1867 / James P. Russell --

A skirmish with Kiowas in Colorado Territory, 1868 / Edward Mayers --

Combat near Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867 / George W. Ford --

A memory of Beecher Island, 1868 / Reuben Waller --

Sully's Campaign in the autumn of 1868 / A. C. Rallya --

The fight at Beaver Creek, 1868 / Edward M. Hayes --

A buffalo soldier recalls Beaver Creek / Reuben Waller --

Kansas Troops and the 1868 Campaign / W. R. Smith --

Trials of the Southern Plains Campaign, 1868-1869 / Henry Pearson --

With Custer at the Washita, 1868 / Henry Langley --

The Battle at Palo Duro Canyon, 1874 / John B. Charlton --

The Battle of Punished Woman's Fork, 1878 / Albert Fensch --

Mountain west. The fight at White Bird Canyon, 1877 / Frank Fenn --

Reminiscences of White Bird Canyon / John P. Schorr --

The Nez Perce War and the Battle of the Big Hole, 1877 / Charles N. Loynes --

The Bear's Paw Campaign and the surrender of Chief Joseph / Luther Barker --

Bannock War service, 1878 / Ernest F. Albrecht --

Fighting the Bannocks / George Buzan --

Action in the Ute War of 1879 / Eugene Patterson --

Merritt's relief column to Milk River / Jacob Blaut --

Reminiscences of the Ute Uprising / Jacob Blaut --

The Fifth Cavalry comes through / Arthur S. Wallace --

A sidelight of the Ute Campaign / Earl Hall --

Occupation Duty in Utah, 1879-1880 / George K. Lisk --

West coast. A close call in Oregon, 1868 / John M. Smith --

Scouting during the Modoc War, 1873 / Oliver C. Applegate --

Murder of the peace commissioners / Oliver C. Applegate --

Incident in the charge on the Modocs, January 17, 1873 / Jasper N. Terwilliger --

Southwest. Pursuing Indians during Utah's Black Hawk War, 1865 / Joseph S. McFate --

An Apache fight near Camp Bowie, Arizona, 1871 / John F. Farley --

Combat at Salt River Canyon, 1872 / "Old Non-Com" --

Memories of Lieutenants Hudson and Tyler / Peter Lacher --

A personal bout with Apaches / George O. Eaton --

The fight at Cibicu, 1881 / Anton Mazzanovich -- Notes on the Cibicu Creek fight and the fight at Fort Apache / William Baird -- Campaigning in Arizona in the 1880s / John E. Murphy --

The fight at Black Mesa, 1882 / Earl S. Hall --

Certificate of merit for combat in New Mexico, 1885 / Sylvester Grover --

The campaign against Geronimo / Henry W. Daly --

The fight in Guadaloupe Canyon, 1885 / Emil Pauly --

After the Apaches, 1885-1886 / Clarence B. Chrisman --

Service in Arizona, 1885 / John P. Gardner --

Trailing Geronimo by heliography, 1886 / William W. Neifert --

Remembrance of the Apache Campaign / Samuel D. Gilpin --

To and from Mexico, 1886 / Albert Willis --

Present at the surrender, 1886 / Arnold Schoeni --

Chasing the Apache Kid, 1892-1894 / Richard F. Watson.