Chapter XXIV. A troop of Rough Riders -- Premonitions of trouble -- The hold-up -- The Coeur d'Alenes -- Hunting white goats -- John Willis -- Elkhorn breaks up -- Facing east ........................................................ 412 Chapter XXV. The bad winter -- The first blizzard -- Destruction of the cattle -- The spring flood -- The boneyard .................................................... 429 Chapter XXVI. Roosevelt's losses -- Morrill _vs._ Myers -- Roosevelt takes a hand -- A country of ruins -- New schemes of the Marquis -- The fading of Medora ...................... 440 Chapter XXVII. Bill Jones -- Old friends -- Seth Bullock -- Death of the Marquis -- Roosevelt's progress -- Return as Governor -- Medora celebrates -- The "cowboy bunch" -- Return as President -- Death of Bill Jones -- The Bad Lands to-day ...................................................... 453 Appendix ....................................................... 477 Index .......................................................... 483 ILLUSTRATIONS Theodore Roosevelt on the Round-up, 1885 .......... _Frontispiece_ Photograph by Ingersoll, Buffalo, Minnesota. Maltese Cross Ranch-House ..................................... 16 View from the Door of the Ranch-House ......................... 16 The Prairie at the Edge of the Bad Lands ...................... 32 Photograph by Holmboe, Bismarck, N. D. "Broken Country" .............................................. 32 Photograph by Holmboe. Roosevelt in 1883 ............................................. 48 Medora in the Winter of 1883-84 ............................... 48 "Dutch Wannigan" and Frank O'Donald ........................... 64 Scene of the Killing of Riley Luffsey ......................... 64 Antoine de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Mores ...................... 76 By courtesy of L. A. Huffman, Miles City, Montana. Sylvane Ferris ................................................ 92 A. W. Merrifield .............................................. 92 The Maltese Cross Ranch-House as it was when Roosevelt lived in it ....................................................... 92 Photograph by C. R. Greer, Hamilton, Ohio. The Ford of the Little Missouri near the Maltese Cross ....... 108 A. T. Packard ................................................ 130 Office of the "Bad Lands Cowboy" ............................. 130 The Little Missouri just above Elkhorn ....................... 150 Elkhorn Bottom ............................................... 164 A Group of Bad Lands Citizens ................................ 176 Roosevelt's Brands ........................................... 190 From the _Stockgrowers Journal_, Miles City. Fantastic Formation at Medicine Buttes ....................... 202