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Nolan, Mrs., 242, 245-47.

Northern Pacific Refrigerator Car Co., 61, 79, 117.

Nugent, Lord, 25.

O'Donald, Frank, 63, 64, 66, 67.

O'Hara, Johnny, 329.

Olmstead, Mrs., 96 n.

Osterhaut, 278, 324.

Packard, A. T., arrival in Little Missouri, 73; and the cowboy, 73-75; starts a newspaper, 76; and the Deadwood stage-line, 123, 124, 170, 209-14; a civilizing influence, 130, 131; endeavors to introduce law and order in the Bad Lands, 131-35; issues call for mass meeting, 136; chief of police at Medora, 137-39; announces demise of horse-thieves, 193, 194; enthusiastic over the Bad Lands, 254; his account of Roosevelt and the Devil, 271-75; tries again for county organization, 324, 387; firm for order and decency, 328, 329; realizes bigness of Roosevelt, 411; excoriates Morrill, 443; supports Progressive cause, 473.

Paddock, Jerry, 51, 52, 62.

Paddock, Mrs., 52.

Pender, Sir John, 20-22, 25, 455.

Prairie fires, 351, 357, 358.

Presidential Convention, the, 1884, 88.

Putnam, George Haven, 359.

Ranges, cattle, 91, 92; claims on, 219; need of law of, 220.

Religion, in the Bad Lands, 325-28.

Reuter, John, 16; and Riley Luffsey, 63, 64; returns to old occupations, 169; one of Roosevelt's scow-hands, 338, 339; and the Marquis, 347; becomes Progressive, 473.

Roberts, Lloyd, 456.

Roberts, Margaret, in, 112, 258-60, 456.

Robins, Captain, 160, 189; his bout with Sewall, 161-64.

Robinson, Douglas, 458.

Roderick, Mrs., 52.

Roosevelt, Anna, 104-06.

Roosevelt, James, 40, 70.

Roosevelt, Theodore, arrives in Little Missouri, 3-5; his reason for going to the Bad Lands, 8; starts on buffalo hunt, 12-14; gets an extra saddle horse, 16, 17; enjoys talks with Gregor Lang, 19, 24-28; hunting buffalo, 28-39; desirous of buying a large farm, 39; interested in ranching projects, 40, 41; secures two partners, 42, 43; gives check for fourteen thousand dollars without receipt, 43; kills his buffalo, 44-46; relished things blood-curdling, 47; signs contract with Sylvane and Merrifield, 69, 70, 479, 480; his cattle venture is disapproved of by family, 70; enters upon third term in New York Legislature, 81, 82; death of mother and wife, 82; of public activities of, 82, 83, 87, 88; refuses to join Mugwumps, 88, 172, 208; description of, 89; describes Presidential Convention, 90, 91; makes new contract, 94; gets buckskin suit, 95, 96; shoots antelope, 97; enters into life of ranchman, 97, 98; on the round-up, 99, 275-307, 400-03; attitude of cowboys toward, 101, 102; tried out on the Sully Trail, 103, 104; his life as cowboy, 104, 105; on solitary hunting trip, 105, 106; tries cooking, 107; his reading and writing, 108, 109; a good mixer, 112; and Bill Jones, 115, 116; and the Marquis, 124; tries to join Stuart's vigilantes, 146; determines upon spot for home-ranch, 149; and Mrs. Maddox, 150; adventures at Mingusville, 150-54, 244-47; editorial on, in the Mandan Pioneer, 154; on the Bad Lands, in the New York Tribune, 156; contract with Sewall and Dow, 156, 157, 481; interviewed by the Pioneer, 158, 159; on the ranch, 159-65; prepares for hunting trip, 168, 169, 173, 174; demanded as first Congressional representative of Dakota, 171; his political standing in the East, 172; always wanted to make the world better, 174, 219; his hunting trip in the Big Horn Mountains, 175-88; shoots a grizzly, 185-88; returns to Elkhorn, 202-05; threatened by Maunders, 207, 208; makes campaign speeches in New York, 208; night ride of, 216, 217; depression of, 217-19; starts a reform, 219, 222; in winter on the ranch, 223-28; hunts mountain sheep, 228-32; forms stockmen's association, 231-34. Returns to New York and works on "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," 235, 239; his derby hat, 239; illness of, 240, 241; swims the Little Missouri, 249-52; and his ranching companions, 252, 253; a capable ranchman, 255; intolerant of dishonesty and ineffectiveness, 256, 257; how esteemed by the ranchmen, 257, 258; and the buttermilk, 259; and the neighbors, 260-64; tries cooking again, 265; trailing cattle, 268-70; his horsemanship, 270, 271; gentles the Devil, 271-75; on the round-up, 275-307; breaks bronco, 287-89; tries Ben Butler, 289-91; breaks point of shoulder, 290, 291, 293; attends dinner at Mrs. Cummins's, 293, 294; in the stampede, 295-97; rescues Englishman with lasso, 297, 298; his enjoyment of the cowboy life, 305, 306; interviewed at St. Paul, 308, 309; his life at Elkhorn, 310-12, 316, 317; adventure with Wadsworth's dog, 315, 316; relations with the Marquis, 336-42, 345-49; did not intend to enter Dakota politics, 350, 351; adventure with Indians, 353, 354; his attitude toward the Indians, 355, 356; breaks his arm, 359; writes articles for press, 359; and Mrs. Ferris, 363, 364; anger at theft of boat, 365-71; undertakes Life of T. H. Benton, 371; on a thief hunt, 372-86; representative of stockmen's association, 392-95; his cattle prospects, 395-97; continues his Life of Benton, 397-99; his enjoyable summer of 1886, 401, 402; his influence over the cowboys, 403; Fourth of July oration, 407-11; restlessness of, 412; feelings at prospect of war with Mexico, 413-15; what he got from the Western life, 416; his human sympathy, 417; holds up train, 418, 419; goes goat hunting with John Willis, 419-24; terminates engagement with Sewall and Dow, 424-28; becomes engaged to Edith Carow, 426; nominated for Mayor of New York City, 429; marriage, 430; his losses, 440, 441; assumes leadership in stockmen's association, 446; later visits to Bad Lands, 453, 454, 458; books of, 453, 454; member of Civil Service Commission, 454; later encounters with Morrill, 457, 458; meets Seth Bullock, 459; member of Civil Service Commission, Police Commissioner, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 463; in Spanish War, 463, 464; Governor of New York, 464; goes to Dakota as nominee for vice-presidency, 465-68; becomes President, 468; entertains cowboys at White House, 468, 469; visits Medora for last time, 469-72; death, 473; Dakota investment, 482.

Rough Riders, the, 464.

Round-up, the, 99, 220, 275-307, 403-03.

Rowe, 313, 314.

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