LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS. 



PORTRAIT OF AUTHOR ...... Frontispiece 



MAP to face p. xv 



LITTLE KOBE (TAK-KEE-O-MAH), CHIEF OF THE 



CHETENNES xxiv 



LITTLE RAVEN, HEAD CHIEF OF THE ARRAPAHOES . xxv 



BIRD CHIEF, WAR CHIEF OF THE ARRAPAHOES . . xxvi 



EARLY DAYS IN DENVER (1859) ..... Iviii 



BUFFALO ON THE PLAINS ...... ,, 119 



CHARGE OF A BUFFALO BULL 128 



INDIANS HUNTING BUFFALO ,,139 



SLAUGHTER OF BUFFALO ON THE KANSAS PACIFIC 



RAILROAD ........ 142 



PEACE OR WAR ? INDIAN COUNCIL .... 265 



THE PEACE COMMISSION AT WORK .... 270 



CELEBRATING VICTORY. THE SCALP DANCE . . 278 



'OKOLOHAMA,' THE LAST HOME OF THE INDIANS . 290 



A DAKOTA OR Sioux BELLE 294 



