Part 3

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