Surveyor Schleigel's Teamster Hung at Sidney -- The Bosler Range -- The VB Brand -- Minnie Montgomery Honeymoon -- The House of La Grange

CHAPTER IX 104

Creighton's -- The First Ranch of All -- Death of Creel in Bull Canyon -- Tom Kane's Adventure -- A Cowboy Wedding

CHAPTER X 106

First Ranch in Nebraska West of North Platte, Keith & Barton -- H. V. Redington's Ranch -- Nerud's Corner -- Later Snake Creek Ranches

CHAPTER XI 109

Colonel Charles Coffee of Creighton's. Box Elder, Rock Ranch, Hat Creek and Chadron

-- Emmet & Brewster -- Arrest of Fly Speck Bill -- First Gardens in Sioux County

CHAPTER XII Ill

John Adams Joins Redington in First Ranch of the Panhandle -- The Rustlers -- Origin of Ranches on Cedar Creek -- Smith's Fork or Rush Creek -- Vantassel's Tie Contract

CHAPTER XIII 113

Jim Kidd's Training Ground -- V-Cross and Cherry Creek Ranches -- Henry County Hughes -- Little Moon Postoffice -- Oelrich's Wild Escapades

CHAPTER XIV 116

Around Camp Wagons -- A Horse Trade With Doc Middleton -- Arbuckle's Break Post -- Scotchmen Buy Big Ranches -- John Clay and the Two-Bar

CHAPTER XV 118

Frewen's Ranch Experience -- Hanging of Billy Nurse by Vigilantes -- Holding up Doc. Middleton -- Death of the Famous Character

CHAPTER XVI 121

Perry Yeast's Success -- Judge Gaslin, Who Wrote "The Law of the West" -- Tom Ryan's Defiance

CHAPTER XVII 123

Newman's Ranch on the Running Water -- Bartlett Richards & Company -- The Scourge of the Land Inquisition -- Cattle Rustlers -- Hall & Evans -- Evan's Battle For Right -- First Dairy Herd