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The exploits of Ben Arnold : Indian fighter, gold miner, cowboy, hunter, and army scout / map, illustrations, bibliography, index, and notes by Lewis F. Crawford in collaboration with Josephine McCarthy Waggoner ; foreword by Paul L. Hedren.
- Title
- The exploits of Ben Arnold : Indian fighter, gold miner, cowboy, hunter, and army scout / map, illustrations, bibliography, index, and notes by Lewis F. Crawford in collaboration with Josephine McCarthy Waggoner ; foreword by Paul L. Hedren.
- Author
- Arnold, Ben, -1922.
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1999.
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- Description
- 324 p. : ill., 1 map; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Ben Arnold (Connor), soldier, goldseeker, bullwhacker, scout, hunter, cowboy, trader, miner, interpreter, and homesteader, epitomized the restless frontiersman. Through Arnold's recollections, the reader can experience life in the post-Civil War West.
- Series Statement
- The Western frontier library ; 64
- Uniform Title
- Rekindling camp fires
- Western frontier library 64.
- Alternative Title
- Rekindling camp fires
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Biographies
- Note
- Originally published under title: Rekindling camp fires, 1926.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-313) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword (starting p. 5) / Paul L. Hedren -- Introduction (starting p. 11) -- Ch. I Morgan and Quantrill (starting p. 15) -- Ch. II Off for Fort Kearney (starting p. 21) -- Ch. III Fort Kearney and Doby Town (starting p. 27) -- Ch. IV A Saloon Orgy (starting p. 38) -- Ch. V Mutiny Planned and Averted (starting p. 42) -- Ch. VI Julesburg -- Remi and Slade Tragedies (starting p. 46) -- Ch. VII Julesburg to Fort Laramie (starting p. 53) -- Ch. VIII Soldiering on the Plains (starting p. 60) -- Ch. IX A Fight with a Grizzly (starting p. 68) -- Ch. X Coming of the Danites (starting p. 72) -- Ch. XI A Wanderer (starting p. 78) -- Ch. XII Incidents on Site of Old Fort Hall (starting p. 87) -- Ch. XIII In the Land of Gold -- Virginia City -- Helena (starting p. 91) -- Ch. XIV A Blizzard Tragedy (starting p. 106) -- Ch. XV Fort Union -- Ice Gorge (starting p. 112) -- Ch. XVI Our Rescue -- Down the Missouri on a Mackinaw (starting p. 125) -- Ch. XVII Sioux City and Back to Fort Rice (starting p. 136) -- Ch. XVIII Cutting Wood for Steamboats (starting p. 147) -- Ch. XIX Fort Rice Indian Treaty -- 1868 (starting p. 158) -- Ch. XX Distant Prospects -- Disillusionment (starting p. 173) -- Ch. XXI Up With a Trail Herd (starting p. 183) -- Ch. XXII Life as a Cowboy Around the Agencies (starting p. 195) -- Ch. XXIII Trouble Brewing in the Black Hills (starting p. 203) -- Ch. XXIV In and Out of the Black Hills (starting p. 215) -- Ch. XXV Preparing for the Little Big Horn Campaign (starting p. 231) -- Ch. XXVI Fort Fetterman and Tongue River (starting p. 237) -- Ch. XXVII Incidents of the Battle on the Rosebud (starting p. 246) -- Ch. XXVIII Some Observations on Crook's Inactivity (starting p. 254) -- Ch. XXIX Incidents Among Indians and Outlaws (starting p. 263) -- Ch. XXX The Homesteader Vanguard (starting p. 275) -- Ch. XXXI Indian Characteristics (starting p. 282) -- Ch. XXXII Some Famous Sioux Chiefs (starting p. 289) -- Ch. XXXIII Reflections (starting p. 302) -- Ch. XXXIV Arnold's Death -- Author's Comments (starting p. 306) -- Bibliography (starting p. 311) -- Index (starting p. 315)
- ISBN
- 0806131055 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99027498^
- OCLC
- 41238509
- SCSB-11609787
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library