| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 525 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Early years in kansas: 1861-1867 -- Boyhood becomes early manhood: 1861-1867 -- Frontier teamster: summer 1867 -- Part II. Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry: 1868-1869 winter campaign -- On the march to Camp Supply: October-November 1868 -- The balance of forces on the plains: 1868 -- Custer at the Washita: November 1868 -- Winter march from Camp Supply to Fort Cobb: December 1868 -- Arrival at Fort Cobb: December-January 1868-1869 -- Winter camp at Fort Cobb: January 1869 -- Winter march to the new Fort Sill: January 1869 -- Fort Sill: exploring the Wichita Mountains: January-February 1869 -- Fort Sill: Indian legends: January-February 1869 -- Fort Sill: a soldier's discontents: January-February 1869 -- March from Fort Sill to Fort Hays: February-March 1869 -- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: joining Custer's command: February-March 1869 -- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: Custer pursues Medicine Arrow: February-March 1869 -- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: Custer declines to attack: February-March 1869 -- Fort Sill to Fort Hays: white captives released: troops eat their mules: March-April 1868 -- Mustered out: following the family westward: March-April 1868 -- Homesteading in Jewell County: May 1869 -- Part III. Frontier patrols with the Kansas State Militia: 1869-1870 -- Company D patrols north central Kansas: May-October 1869 -- Contacts with settlers and Kansas Geological Survey: May-October 1869 -- My first buffalo kill: fall 1869 -- Discharged from the militia and trapping beaver: November 1869 -- Hunting and trapping forays: winter 1869-1870 -- Part IV. Jewell City beginnings: 1870 -- The Buffalo Militia and Fort Jewell: spring 1870 -- Jewell City celebrates the Fourth of July: May-July 1870 -- Organizing Jewell County: July-September 1870 -- Part V. Settling Smith County: 1870-1872 -- Locating townsites for Gaylord and Cedarville: September 1870 -- The first building in Gaylord: 1871 -- Organizing Smith County: fall-spring 1871-1872 -- Part VI. Following the frontier west to Decatur County: 1872-1873 -- Exploring Decatur County: fall/winter 1872-1873 -- Homesteading in Decatur County: winter-fall 1873 -- Part VII. Hunting and trapping adventures on the great plains: 1873-1874 -- An Omaha Indian buffalo hunt in northwestern Kansas: October 1873 -- On the range for buffalo, beaver, otter, and wolves: October-November 1873 -- More hunting adventures: November-December 1873 -- Buffalo camp on the Republican River: December 1873 -- Beaver trapping tactics: January-March 1874 -- Hunting and trapping on Big Timber Creek: March-April 1874 -- Hunting buffalo on the State Line Trail: April 1874 -- A prairie storm scatters the horses: April 1874 -- Two Lance's Lakotas visit the camp: May 1874 -- Buffalo hunting on the Republican and Big Timber: June-August 1874 -- A friendly parting of ways: August-October 1874 -- A moonlight hunt on the Republican: October 1874 -- Buffalo camp on the north fork of the Republican: October 1874 -- Part VIII. Life with the Lakota: 1874-1875 -- A visit from Sitting Bull and Big Horse: November-December 1874 -- Lakota neighbors on the Republican: December 1874 -- Lessons in tribal justice: January 1875 -- Storms in eastern Colorado: January 1875 -- Taking hides to Julesburg, Colorado: February 1875 -- Accused of stealing Indian ponies: March 1875 -- Hired to recover stolen horses: March-April 1875 -- Cheyenne massacre on the middle fork of the Sappa -- Part IX. On the trail of horse thieves: 1875 -- Captured by horse thieves: June 1875 -- Hunting down the outlaws: summer 1875 -- The fate of the horse thieves: fall 1875 -- Part X. Two years as a cowboy: 1876-1878 -- An introduction to cattle herding: spring 1876 -- Herding for High and Mayfield and the Adair brothers: April-July 1876 -- Riding for Quinlan and Montgomery and Elwin Webber: summer-fall 1876 -- A big roundup on the Smoky Hill River: 1878 -- Driving a herd on the Great Texas Cattle Trail: July 1878 -- Giving lessons to greenhorns: August 1878 -- Headed home to a crisis: August-September 1878 -- Part XI. Cavalry messenger and scout: 1878 -- In pursuit of northern Cheyenne bands: September-November 1878 |
| Summary |
Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in their breadth and depth of historical event and impact. His tales of life as a teamster, cavalryman, town developer, trapper, buffalo hunter, military scout, and cowboy put us squarely in the middle of such storied events as Sheridan's 1868-1869 winter campaign on the southern Plains and the Cheyenne |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2023) |
| Subject |
Street, William D. (William Daniel), 1851-1911.
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| SUBJECT |
Street, William D. (William Daniel), 1851-1911 fast |
| Subject |
Pioneers -- Kansas -- Biography
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Pioneers
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Kansas
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Street, Warren R., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780700621668 |
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0700621660 |
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