Chapter XII. "Medicine Buttes" -- Roosevelt returns to Elkhorn -- Maunders threatens Roosevelt -- Packard's stage-line -- The dress rehearsal -- Another bubble bursts ................ 202 Chapter XIII. Bleak camping -- Roosevelt "starts a reform" -- The deputy marshal -- Winter activities -- Breaking broncos -- A tenderfoot holds his own -- Wild country -- Mountain sheep -- The stockmen's association ................ 215 Chapter XIV. Winter misery -- Return to Medora -- Illness and recovery -- Mingusville -- "He's drunk and on the shoot" -- The seizure of Bill ...................................... 235 Chapter XV. The spring of 1885 -- Swimming the Little Missouri -- Ranching companions -- Golden expectations -- The boss of the Maltese Cross -- The buttermilk -- Hospitality at Yule -- Lang's love of debate -- Nitch comes to dine ..................................................... 248 Chapter XVI. Cattle torture -- Trailing cattle -- Roosevelt's horsemanship -- Gentling the Devil -- The spring round-up -- The first encampment -- The day's work -- Diversions -- Profanity -- "Fight or be friends" ............ 266 Chapter XVII. The "mean" horse -- Ben Butler -- Dr. Stickney -- Dinner with Mrs. Cummins -- The stampede -- Roping an earl's son -- A letter to Lodge -- Sylvane's adventure -- Law ......................................................... 286 Chapter XVIII. Sewall's skepticism -- Interview at St. Paul -- The womenfolks -- The Elkhorn "Outfit" -- The Wadsworths' dog ......................................................... 305 Chapter XIX. Medora -- "Styles in the Bad Lands" -- The coming of law -- The preachers -- Packard's parson -- Johnny O'Hara ...................................................... 318 Chapter XX. De Mores the undaunted -- Genealogy of the Marquis -- Roosevelt and the Marquis -- Hostility -- The first clash -- Indictment of the Marquis -- The Marquis's trial -- The Marquis sees red -- Peace ...................... 331 Chapter XXI. Red man and white -- Roosevelt's adventure -- Good Indian, dead Indian -- Prairie fires -- Sewall delivers a lecture -- The testing of Mrs. Joe -- Mrs. Joe takes hold ... 350 Chapter XXII. The theft of the boat -- Redhead Finnegan -- Preparations for pursuit -- Departure -- "Hands up!" -- Capture of the thieves -- Marooned -- Cross country to jail -- Arrival in Dickinson -- "The only damn fool" ............. 365 Chapter XXIII. Medora's first election -- The celebration -- Miles City meeting -- Roosevelt's cattle prospects -- "His upper lip is stiff" -- Completing "Benton" -- The summer of 1886 -- Influence over cowboys -- "A Big Day" -- Oratory -- Roosevelt on Americanism -- "You will be President" ......... 387