Chapter I. Arrival -- Little Missouri -- A game country -- Joe Ferris -- The trail to Chimney Butte -- The three Canadians -- The buckskin mare ................................ 3 Chapter II. Gregor Lang -- The Vine family -- The buffalo hunt -- The argonauts -- Politics -- The passing of the buffalo -- Pursuit -- The charge of the buffalo -- Broken slumbers -- Failure -- "It's dogged that does it" -- Roosevelt makes a decision -- He acquires two partners -- He kills his buffalo ............................................ 18 Chapter III. Jake Maunders -- The "bad men" -- Archie the precocious -- County organization -- The graces of the wicked ....................................................... 47 Chapter IV. Marquis de Mores -- Founding of Medora -- The machinations of Maunders result in bloodshed -- The boom begins -- The Marquis in business -- Roosevelt returns East -- The Marquis's idea -- Packard -- Frank Vine's little joke -- Medora blossoms forth -- The Marquis has a new dream -- Joe Ferris acquires a store -- Roosevelt meets disaster -- Invasion -- Roosevelt turns West ............................. 58 Chapter V. "I will not be dictated to!" -- George Myers -- Mrs. Maddox -- The Maltese Cross -- On the round-up -- "Hasten forward quickly there!" -- Trying out the tenderfoot -- A letter to "Bamie" -- The emerald biscuits ............... 89 Chapter VI. The neighbors -- Mrs. Roberts -- Hell-Roaring Bill Jones -- A good man for "sassing" -- The master of Medora -- The Marquis's stage-line -- The road to Deadwood -- The Marquis finds a manager .............................. 108 Chapter VII. The gayety of Medora -- Holocaust -- Influence of the cowboy -- Moulding public opinion -- The "Bastile" -- The mass meeting -- The thieves -- The underground railway -- Helplessness of the righteous -- Granville Stuart -- The three argonauts ............................................. 123 Chapter VIII. The new ranch -- The bully at Mingusville -- The end of the bully -- Dakota discovers Roosevelt -- Stuart's vigilantes -- Sewall and Dow -- Mrs. Lang -- Sewall speaks his mind -- Enter the Marquis ........................ 148 Chapter IX. "Dutch Wannigan" -- Political sirens -- "Able to face anything" .............................................. 167 Chapter X. The start for the Big Horns -- Roosevelt writes home -- A letter to Lodge -- Indians -- Camp in the mountains -- Roosevelt gets his bear ........................ 175 Chapter XI. Rumblings from the Marquis -- The "stranglers" -- The band of "Flopping Bill" -- Fifteen marked men -- Maunders the discreet -- Sewall receives callers ............ 189