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.
