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 ....................................................... 477

Index .......................................................... 483

ILLUSTRATIONS

Theodore Roosevelt on the Round-up, 1885 .......... _Frontispiece_
Photograph by Ingersoll, Buffalo, Minnesota.

Maltese Cross Ranch-House ..................................... 16

View from the Door of the Ranch-House ......................... 16

The Prairie at the Edge of the Bad Lands ...................... 32
Photograph by Holmboe, Bismarck, N. D.

"Broken Country" .............................................. 32
Photograph by Holmboe.

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 ...................... 76
By courtesy of L. A. Huffman, Miles City, Montana.

Sylvane Ferris ................................................ 92

A. W. Merrifield .............................................. 92

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

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 ........................................... 190
From the _Stockgrowers Journal_, Miles City.

Fantastic Formation at Medicine Buttes ....................... 202

Medicine Buttes .............................................. 202

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

Theodore Roosevelt (1884) .................................... 236

Elkhorn Ranch Buildings from the River ....................... 252
Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt

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 .......................................... 310
Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt.

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 ........................................ 370
Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt.

Dow and Sewall in the Boat ................................... 384
Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt.

Medora in 1919 ............................................... 402

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

Corrals at Elkhorn ........................................... 424
Photograph by Theodore Roosevelt.

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.