series of _American Fights and Fighters_, prepared for consumers of popular sensational literature, but containing much valuable detail, and some critical judgments). Nearly every incident in the history of Indian relations has been made the subject of investigations by the War and Interior departments. The resulting collections of papers are to be found in the congressional documents, through the indexes. They are too numerous to be listed here. The searcher should look for reports from the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, or the Postmaster-general, for court-martial proceedings, and for reports of special committees of Congress. Dunn gives some classified lists in his _Massacres of the Mountains_. There is a rapidly increasing mass of individual biography and reminiscence for the West during this period. Some works of this class which have been found useful here are: W. M. Meigs, _Thomas Hart Benton_ (Phila., 1904); C. W. Upham, _Life, Explorations, and Public Services of John Charles Frémont_ (40th thousand, Boston, 1856); S. B. Harding, _Life of George B. Smith, Founder of Sedalia, Missouri_ (Sedalia, 1907); P. H. Burnett, _Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer_ (N.Y., 1880; by one who had followed the Oregon trail and had later become governor of California); A. Johnson, _S. A. Douglas_ (N.Y., 1908; one of the most significant biographies of recent years); H. Stevens, _Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens_ (Boston, 1900); R. S. Thorndike, _The Sherman Letters_ (N.Y., 1894; full of references to frontier conditions in the sixties); P. H. Sheridan, _Personal Memoirs_ (London, 1888; with a good map of the Indian war of 1867-1868, which the later edition has dropped); E. P. Oberholtzer, _Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War_ (Phila., 1907; with details of Northern Pacific railway finance); H. Villard, _Memoirs_ (Boston, 1904; the life of an active railway financier); Alexander Majors, _Seventy Years on the Frontier_ (N.Y., 1893; the reminiscences of one who had belonged to the great firm of Russell, Majors, and Waddell); G. R. Brown, _Reminiscences of William M. Stewart of Nevada_ (1908). Miscellaneous works indicating various types of materials which have been drawn upon are: O. J. Hollister, _The Mines of Colorado_ (Springfield, 1867; a miners' handbook); S. Mowry, _Arizona and Sonora_ (3d ed., 1864; written in the spirit of a mining prospectus); T. B. H. Stenhouse, _The Rocky Mountain Saints_ (London, 1874; a credible account from a Mormon missionary who had recanted without bitterness); W. A. Linn, _The Story of the Mormons_ (N.Y., 1902; the only critical history of the Mormons, but having a strong Gentile bias); T. J. Dimsdale, _The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains_ (2d ed., Virginia City, 1882; a good description of the social order of the mining camp). INDEX Acton, Minnesota, Sioux massacre at, 235. Alder Gulch mines, Idaho, 168. Anthony, Major Scott J., 259.