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Paxton's Ogallala Company-- Hall'? Famous Drive to Pine Ridge-- Dick Bean's Death

-- Gun .Men and Frantz's Comical Episode

I \. Hall and Robert Graham's Old Time Ranch -- Ogallala Men and Events-- Indians Get Southers -- Bargain Sales of Ranch Locations -- Harper's Deal

An Indian Wagon Race -- Building Camp Clarke Bridge -- Round-up -- Wild West Shows

-- Tom Horn's Outlaw Horse -- Six Thousand Cattle Milling in the River

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The Farquerers and Cross Country Riding -- Hunting Geese on Hughes Island -- Fun of the Frontier -- Jimmy Moore's Long Walk

The First Grangers-- Murder of Collins at Camp Clarke -- Sheriff Campbell Gets Doc. Romine -- Beginning of Minatare

Perry Braziel Arrives on the Texas Trail -- Trailing Cattle to Judith Basin -- Sunderling's Elkskin Trousers -- The Drive to Pine Ridge -- Two Girls of the Prairie

Laing's Ranch -- The Water Holes -- Death of Wheeler -- First Hogs on North River -- First Hogs on Pumpkin Creek -- Killing Rattlesnakes

The Virginian -- Arbuckle's Ranch -- Romance of Parents of Madeline Force -- Lingle of Valley View -- Connoly's of the "PF" -- New Ranches -- Hank Inghram's Narrow Escape

The Shifting Sands -- The Storm of 78-- First Settlers on Pumpkin Creek -- First Cow in Western Nebraska-- Mental Giants of the Big Cow Days

Vigilantes Hang Reed at Sidney-- The Great Bullion Robbery -- Whispering Smith Gets

Oberfelders Demonstrate Hog and Alfalfa Combination -- Later Ranchers Near Oshkosh