Powell - Historys Worst: 2000 Years of Idiocy

V. 1. 1873-75: March, 1873: Cheyennes Eagle House burns ; Indians restless along the Chug [Chugwater] -- April, 1873: Ranchers on constant lookout for Indians ; White Clay mail carrier killed ; Bull train hauls 75,000 pounds freight per trip ; Rings for Lallee ; Gift wagons from Jules Ecoffee no account ; Echoes from the Modoc War ; Stage coach stalled, soldier freezes, in blizzard ; General Grant and family visit Cheyenne -- May, 1873: A loan from Hi Kelly ; Deep snow from Bear Springs to Cheyenne ; Cheyenne to Omaha by train, $31 ; The mystery of Little Mary ; Early oil discovery near Teapot Dome -- January, 1875: A blue financial outlook ; Lucky at cards ; trouble in Louisiana ; Sawing beef like ice at 51 below zero ; Government pays eight cents for meat ; Bids $1680 per annum on mail route from Medicine Bow to Ft. Fetterman -- February, 1875: History of Bordeaux ; The murder of Baptiste Ladeau ; Six Mile Ranch favorite spot for killings ; Cy Williams sells his life dearly ; Missouri Jim frosts his ears and gets a grubstake ; Jim Harwood, John Boyd go for blacksmith, return slightly inebriated ; Roundup in Goshen Hole ; Jim Hunton out all night looking for ponies ; Driving Painted Horn beeves to Ft. Fetterman ; Lallees allowance -- March, 1875: 102 cow hides a heavy load, sell for $5.50 each in Cheyenne ; Gold excitement and trouble brewing in the Black Hills -- April, 1875: Pants for three brothers, $35 ; Butchers wage, $50 per month ; Why 80-year-old bridge across Platte [River] is still sturdy ; Wins chairs in raffle, trades with Speed Stagner for rug ; A bad night at cards ; Butcher Fischer has the Quinzy [quinsy] ; Broken legs for Ward and Jim Lane ; Numpa [Nampa?] says Indians will fight for Black Hills ; An adventure with Lallee -- May, 1875 : A peace conference that failed ; Spring roundup ; Brooks sells out to Guiterman [Getermann] ; Charles E. Clay, Huntons contemporary ; A military expedition -- June, 1875: Walker & Johnson gather 934 beeves ; Indians steal horses on Rock Creek and Laramie Plains ; Gathering wire near Old Fort Casper ; Cavalry unable to cross Platte, returns to Ft. Fetterman ; Horse racing and liquor ; Griffins Ranch burned -- July, 1875: A master wagon maker ; Eleven bull teams on the road ; A meeting at the Natural Bridge ; Surveyor Hammond recovers stolen horse ; History of Bridgers ferry ; Mrs. W.G. Bullock, descendant of George Washington ; Lallee goes visiting ; Gen. [General] Crook passes north -- August, 1875: Telegraph to Fetterman down ; Indians steal Malcomb [Malcolm] Campbells horses, kill old man ; Haying on Box Elder and the Chug ; Whitehead prospecting party see Indians, come to Huntons ranch ; Exodus of officers from Fort Fetterman ; Making adobe brick ; Tom Hunton survives serious illness ; Indian Commission at Ft. Laramie -- September, 1875: Three steers for $100 ; Six weeks provisions for hay crew ; Jules Ecoffey robbed in Cheyenne ; Election at 3-Mile Ranch, Lallee votes too ; Lallee ill on LaPrele, Dr. Gibson attends her ; Indians ugly at Agency Council, kill man on Laramie, attack hay train at Bridgers Ferry, cavalry set out -- October, 1875 : Lallee recovers, return to Bordeaux ; Bullock and Phillips bondsmen for Hunton ; Bull calves, $38; steers, 3 pound ; A boil where it hurts, especially on horseback ; Swan buy cattle on LaBonte ; Freight business hits slump, bull trains go after poles ; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians visit Ft. [Fort] Fetterman ; Butchering and making sausage ; Powell, Smith, and Lord haul military baggage ; Two pioneers in their later years [Malcolm Campbell, Earnest Logan] -- November, 1875: a bargain to hold hay bottom ; Log floor for Malcomb Campbells house ; 26 work cattle lost, train rumbles on with remaining 64 ; Women and trouble at Fishers, Cully lands in guard house, Roe in hospital ; Bargains at quarter masters sale ; Jim Sanders brings gold out of Black Hills worth $19.45 an ounce ; New iron bridge across Platte at Fort Laramie nears completion ; A telegram about Mary -- December, 1875: The story of Little Bat ; An elk hunt in 1875 -- Distance tables.;v. 1. 1873-75 -- v. 2. 1876-77 -- v. 3. 1878-79 -- v. 4. 1880-82 -- v. 5. 1883-84.;V. 2. Part two, 1877 : January : General Crook, back from the wars, passes to Cheyenne ; Borrows hay press from Senator Kendricks future father-in-law ; Frank Gruard [Grouard], The Sandwich islander who passed for a Sioux ; Horse herd on Spear Fish stolen by Indians ; Deputy Marshal Fisher after horse thief ; Heavy travel and troop movements through Bordeaux, Cross roads of the west ; A stabbing affray at John Owens ranch ; Many Chinamen traveling to the Black Hills ; Seventeen passengerss on coach, including Deputy Fisher and prisoner McGinnis ; Luke Voorhees, Pioneer Stage operator, whose Treasure Coach carried fortunes in gold ; Circulating petition for Post Office at Bordeaux ; Frank Ecoffey on Cheyenne coach with two prisoners ; Indians steal Portugee Phillips and Hi Kellys horses, kill trapper on Cottonwood ; Charly Clay wintering his work cattle on running water ; Nagle & Swan offer $200 reward for stage robbers, dead or alive ; Last Indian depredations in the Laramie region ; Hay price at Fr. Fetterman $60 ton ; Daily coach planned to the Hills, more stable room needed at Bordeaux -- February : Builds house on Tom Huntons homestead ; Bailing hay on the Nick Janis ranch ; General Miles wins victoory on the Yellowstone ; small pox at fort Laramie, one man dies ; Alvah W. Ayers finds Charly Clays work cattle ; John LaMotte gets $40 a month job ; Another prophetic dream, jealous women fighting over him ; Domestic crisis, goes buggy riding with E, Lallee leaves him ; Hay bales weighed 200 pounds, eight-wagon bull train hauls 34 tons to Ft. Fetterman ; Indian scare at Fagans ranch ; Hay for Luke Voorhees stage line at $32 ton ; Thirteen dollar hay brings $60 baled and delivered at Ft. Fetterman ; Britisher badgered at hay camp ; Train attacked on Black Hills Road, one killed, Ft. Laramie troops to rescue ; Horse stealing along the Laramie and Platte, other indian depredations ; Confides his trouble with Lallee to her brother, Little Bat ; Tells Squaw to go, suffers pangs of regret, would rather have seen her die ; W.G. Bullock disapproved for post trader appointment, his squaw record hurt him ; Velvet har, Brass heeled shoes and Merino hose for some lady -- March : Transportation magnates of pre-railroad days ; William Pye steals Jims money and flees, the boys bring him back ; Eternal triangle, hears Lallee has been toying with Joe Morris ; Squaw camp on the Laramie ; Sends Lallee to reservation, but she does not stay there ; Building new stage station at Bordeaux ; F.M. Phillips throws his squaw away but keeps the children ; Anguish for nothers when red and white mates parted ; Buying cattle for Indian beef ; Eula Wulfjen [Mrs. John B. Kendrick] traveled the Texas trail in 73 at age of fifteen months ; Eighteen below zero in March ; Heavy stage coach travel through Bordeaux to Black Hills ; Indians surrendering horses and guns at Red Cloud Agency ; General Crook relaxes at Ft. Laramie ; Lallee had a sewing machine ; Road agents did not molest the lady ; Making shoes for work cattle ; The remarkable Johnny Owens, Twenty notches on his gun ; Tom Hunton first Postmaster at Bordeaux ; McQuade kills the Jacksons -- April : Lure of Black Hills gold spreads over the nation ; Johnny Slaughter, stage driver, killed by road agents ; Col. Carpenter conducted tours for miners ; Hunton brothers qualify to handle mail ; John Boyd builds Homestead House ; Indians stealing horses on Bear Creek ; D.H. Russell buys a $60 bull ; An irrigation system at Bordeaux ; Capt. Van Vliets stallion brings $150 ; Small pox victims left at Chugwatter by Army train ; Cold, wet journey from Bordeaux to Ft. Fetterman ; Capt. Pollock survived the Frontier Wars to die in fall down stairs -- May : Crazy Horse surrenders his warriors but not his spirit, sought death and found it ; John R. Smith turn the table, shoots bandit who came to rob him ; Beef bids for Forts Fetterman and Reno ; Andy Sullivans bones found by roundup party, he was Governor Sinmpsons great uncle ; Ton Hunton sick, treated by doctor passing to the Hills ; Bordeaux Irrigation system completed ; James Monroe helped build Cow Hide Dam across the Chug ; Chinamen bring lauandry service to Black Hills miners ; Roundup crew dissatisfied, maybe the cook was on a toot ; Posey Wilson sues, attaches hay money ; Billy Bacon and Jack Sanders [Saunders] rubbed each other out ; Little Bat finds Bob horse in Indian hands ; Lallee, Old Squaw and Little Bat visit Hi Kelly ; Political plum, Sutlers and post traders had monopoly at frontier posts ; Horse thieves go too far, steal Judge Hauphoffs stock ; Lallee again sent agency, again she does not stay ; Andy Carr recovers some of his horses from Indians ; John Owens buys $30 bull calf ; Thirty dollars a month job for Newcomb.