Produced by flink, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Notes: 1. The original version of this book used small-capitals for names in corespondence headings and closings, as well as in lists. In addition, a.m/p.m are now all in lower case. 2. Text originally in italics is now delimited by an underscore, for example: _The text was italicized_. 3. p. 159. To maintain margins, line 4 of the song was broken after "...you brutes," 4. In THE MYSTERY OF 'MAHBIN MILL, the original book does not contain a Chapter II. 5. Acronymns and abbreviations used in "Plodder's Promotion." Sp. Fru. abbreviates "spiritus frumenti" (better known as whiskey). C. and G. E. is the acronym for "Camp and Garrison Equipage." R.Q.M. is the acronym for Regimental Quarter-Master." 6. "...account of their * on..." Transcriber assumes "actions" is the missing word. The sentence broke across two pages. [Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE CROOK, U. S. A.] CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK AND STORIES OF ARMY LIFE BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U.S.A. AUTHOR OF "BETWEEN THE LINES" "A WAR-TIME WOOING" ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1890 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by CHARLES KING, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Copyright, 1890, by Harper & Brothers. _All rights reserved._ PREFACE. Ten years ago, at the request of the editor of a paper at my old home, these sketches of the Sioux Campaign of 1876 were written and, finding favor with comrades to whom a few were sent, were published in pamphlet form. Now, reinforced by certain other sketches which have since appeared, they are given a new framework. They were the first-fruits, so to speak, of a pen that has since been seldom idle. They were rough sketches, to be sure, but no rougher than the campaign; and in the early days of a divorce from associations that were very dear, and of a return to surroundings once familiar, yet, after twenty years of absence, so changed that a cat in a strange garret could hardly have felt less at home, I laid their faint tribute of respect and honor at the feet of the soldier who had been our commander in the wild days in Arizona, our leader from the Platte to the Yellowstone and our comrade in every hardship and privation-- Brigadier-General George Crook, United States Army.