The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold

by Johnson, Dorothy M.

• ISBN13: 9780878421527
• ISBN10: 0878421521
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-02-01
• Publisher: Mountain Pr
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Summary

The Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned it's three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed as among the very best in the American Trail series The Bloody Bozeman

Table of Contents

1862
Before the Bozeman Trail	3	(5)
The Footloose Ones	8	(6)
The Year Things Changed	14	(11)
1863
The Yellowstone Expedition	25	(2)
The Road-Finders	27	(1)
Stuart Meets the Crows	28	(6)
The Missing Seven Meet Trouble	34	(2)
Death and the Stuart Party	36	(8)
``I Have Found a Scad!''	44	(2)
The Survivors Sight Civilization	46	(2)
The Perils of Domesticity	48	(1)
Jacobs and Bozeman Meet Hostiles	49	(2)
The Way to the Gold Fields	51	(3)
The First Conducted Tour	54	(4)
Sam Word's Story	58	(12)
The Long Road, After All	70	(5)
The Chief Justice Was Lost	75	(5)
The Widow's Might	80	(2)
Canny Trader Toponce	82	(5)
Little Mollie Sheehan	87	(3)
The Road Agents' Downfall	90	(7)
1864
The Rage of Decent Men	97	(3)
The Vigilantes' One Mistake	100	(3)
A Child's-Eye View of Doom	103	(3)
Montana Enters History	106	(3)
Jim Bridger Breaks a New Trail	109	(3)
More Wagons on Bridger's Road	112	(3)
Up Bridger's Road with Rocky Mountain Bob	115	(4)
Frank Kirkaldie Needed Hope	119	(6)
Jim Bridger's Second Trip	125	(5)
The Troubles of the Townsend Train	130	(5)
Some Found Gold Fast	135	(3)
South Pass Seemed Safer	138	(5)
Alex Toponce to the Rescue	143	(2)
How Things Were in Alder Gulch	145	(4)
1865
The Hungry Winter	149	(8)
The Camels Are Coming, Hurray! Hurray!	157	(1)
The Bad Luck Boys on Powder River	158	(12)
Meagher of the Sword	170	(2)
To the States by Mackinaw	172	(3)
Kirkaldie Struggles On	175	(6)
Moving the Supply to the Demand	181	(4)
1866
The Sunday People	185	(2)
Two Solutions Collide	187	(11)
The Inspector Comes to Call	198	(3)
Carrington Quells a Mob	201	(2)
Sawyers on an Empty Road	203	(1)
The View from the Ranks	204	(2)
The Crazy Woman Fight	206	(3)
``All Killed and Scalped by Indians''	209	(3)
The Burial Party	212	(3)
The River of Wagons Flows On	215	(5)
He Traveled in Style	220	(2)
The Grummonds Head for Tragedy	222	(4)
The General Insists	226	(2)
Old Glory Waves in the Wilderness	228	(5)
The Fire-Eater Extingished	233	(6)
Nelson Story Defies Everybody	239	(2)
The Eager Beaver	241	(4)
A Soldier Watches Torture	245	(2)
Frustrations of ``The Acting One''	247	(1)
A Tax Collector Looks at Montana	248	(7)
Kirkaldie: Still Hoping	255	(8)
1867
Good-by to Phil Kearny	263	(4)
The Eager Beaver Is Discharged	267	(2)
The Story of the Sergeants	269	(3)
The Harsh Life of a Soldier	272	(3)
The Hayfield Fight	275	(5)
The Wagon Box Flight	280	(6)
One Man's Solution to the Indian Problem	286	(2)
Ordered to Fort C. F. Smith	288	(3)
The Mysterious End of Meagher	291	(7)
The Long, Long Trip Upriver	298	(4)
Still Waiting for Good Fortune	302	(3)
The Empty Road	305	(4)
1868
Red Cloud Wins His War	309	(3)
The Last Days of Fort C. F. Smith	312	(4)
The Last Wagon Train Book	316	(2)
The Patience of Frank Kirkaldie	318	(7)
After 1868
The Bodies of the Slain	325	(1)
What Happened to Some of Them:	326	(13)
John White	326	(1)
The Alder Gulch Discoverers	327	(3)
First Governor of Montana	330	(1)
Wilbur Fisk Sanders	331	(1)
John Owen	332	(1)
Jim Bridger	333	(1)
Nelson Story	333	(1)
Franklin Kirkaldie	334	(2)
The Carringtons	336	(3)
Footnotes	339	(8)
Bibliography	347	(8)
Index	355