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Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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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 76

Sylvane Ferris 92

A. W. Merrifield 92

The Maltese Cross Ranch-House as it was when Roosevelt lived in it Photograph by C. R. Greer, Hamilton, Ohio 92

The Ford of the Little Missouri near the Maltese Cross 108

A. T. Packard 130

Office of the "Bad Lands Cowboy" 130

The Little Missouri just above Elkhorn 150

Elkhorn Bottom 164

A Group of Bad Lands Citizens 176

Roosevelt's Brands From the Stockgrowers Journal, Miles City 190

Fantastic Formation at Medicine Buttes 202

Medicine Buttes 202

Poster of the Marquis de Mores's Deadwood Stage-Line By courtesy of the North Dakota Historical Society 212

Theodore Roosevelt (1884) 236

Elkhorn Ranch Buildings from the River Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt 252

Gregor Lang 262

Mrs. Lang 262

The Maltese Cross "Outfit" 276

The Maltese Cross "Chuck-Wagon" 276

The Scene of the Stampede 296

Elkhorn Ranch-House Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt 310

Site of Elkhorn (1919) 310

Hell-Roaring Bill Jones 320

Bill Williams's Saloon (1919) 320

Hotel de Mores 332

The Abattoir of the Marquis de Mores 332

The Bad Lands near Medora 346

Joseph A. Ferris 360

Joe Ferris's Store 360

Wilmot Dow and Theodore Roosevelt (1886) 370

The Piazza at Elkhorn Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt 370

Dow and Sewall in the Boat Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt 384

Medora in 1919 402

Ferris and Merrifield on the Ruins of the Shack at Elkhorn 424

Corrals at Elkhorn Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt 424

George Myers 442

The Little Missouri at Elkhorn 442

Lincoln Lang 456

William T. Dantz 456

Margaret Roberts 456

"Dutch Wannigan" 456

Joe and Sylvane Ferris and Merrifield (1919) 472

Rough Riders Hotel 472

Photographs of Bad Lands scenes, unless otherwise indicated, were made by the author.

The end-paper map is from a drawing made for the book by Lincoln A. Lang. The town of Mingusville is indicated on it under its present name—Wibaux.[Back to Contents]

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