Billy Bowlegs: leaves Florida, 20 _footnote_; communications from, 198, _footnote_; refuses to sign treaty with Confederate States, 198-199; death of, 198, _footnote_; regarded as good commander, 277, _footnote_ Bird Creek: battle of, 138, _footnote_, 255-256 Bishop, A. W: work cited, 67, _footnote_, 68, _footnote_, 133, _footnote_ Black Beaver: 101 and _footnote_, 303 Black Dog: see _Shon-tah-sob-ba_ Blackhoof, Eli: 209, _footnote_ Blain, S. A: 56, _footnote_, 57, _footnote_ Blankets: furnished Indian refugees, 261; to be furnished Indian soldiers in U. S. A., 271, _footnote_; Indians need, 310; Leeper offers to give Kiowas, 318; Rector urges Leeper not to promise, Kiowas, 332; Kiowas receive from U. S. government, 343 Bloomfield Academy: 40, _footnote_ Bob Deer: 244 Boggy Depot: 91, 230, _footnote_ Bonds: 61, 145-146 Boone, A. G: 210, _footnote_ Boonsboro [Boonsborough]: 111 and _footnote_, 125 Boudinot, E. C: 119, 153, 156, _footnote_, 219, _footnote_ Bourland, James: appointed commissioner, 88; report, 91 Branch, Harrison B: 182-183, 210, _footnote_, 228, 232-233, 249, 271, 279, _footnote_ Brazos Agency: 55 Bribery: William McIntosh guilty of, 236; of chiefs to induce secession, 262, _footnote_ Brigade: jayhawking character of Lane's, 233; Lane's gives John Mathews his deserts, 239; Hunter asks permission to muster, of friendly Indians, 250; Kile, quartermaster in 274; proportion of white troops in Pike's, 280 Brooks, Preston: 45, _footnote_ Brown, James: 217 Buchanan, James: administration charged by free-state Kansans with bad faith, 37; endorses pro-slavery policy, 45, _footnote_; distrusted, 47; "no coercion" policy, 87, _footnote_; patronage, given to southern men, 262, _footnote_; work cited, 22, _footnote_, 29, _footnote_ Buckner, H. S: 92 Buffalo Hump: 305, 315, 330, 338, 348 Bureau of Indian Affairs (Confederate): 128, 141, _footnote_, 190, _footnote_ Burgevin, Edmund: 105, _footnote_ Burleigh, Walter A: 227, _footnote_ Burlington: 259, 260, _footnote_ Burroughs, B: 120 Burrow, N. B: 99, 298, 305, 330, 341 Bushwhackers: drive Caddoes out of Texas, 19, _footnote_ Butler, George: agent for Cherokees, 45, 47, _footnote_, 285, 290 Byington, Cyrus: 79 Cache Creek: 55 Caddoes: from Louisiana, 19, _footnote_; Pike to meet, 189, _footnote_; horses stolen by, 353 Calhoun, J. M: 90, _footnote_ Calhoun, John C: report, 27; motive, 29; political heresy, 133 Cameron, Simon: 234, 249, _footnote_ Campbell, A. B: 260, _footnote_ Canadian River: 55, 63, 67, 162 Cane Hill: 296, 327 Carolinas: Catawbas in, 20, _footnote_ Carroll, H. K: work cited, 37, _footnote_