Early Days -- And Crawford -- Many Fir

County Organization and Government CHAPTER VI ....

Town of Chadron

CHAPTER VII ...

Businesses and Professions

Churches and Schools - Banks -- In the World War

Things

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Came From the; Sea" 3

Robert Stuart's Winter Camp, 1812-13 11

Death oe Hiram Scott 14

Grave of Red Cloud's Daughter, Fort Laramie, Wyoming 49

Camping Ground of the Hostiles 64

HostilEs Coming in From the Bad Lands to Surrender 66

Indians "Home Life" 68

On the Range Near "Signal Buttes" 87

"Branding Calves" 88

Cowboys Resting and Playing MumblEpeg 88

Sidney R. Probst, Sr. , 89

Four Old Time Cowpunchers 98

John Bratt 119

Long Horn's Fagin Ranch, Alliance 123

Hanging Reed by Vigilantes Committee 152

First Cemetery, Sidney 167

Fine Residence of Sidney 167

Sidney Short Route to Black Hills 168

Sidney in 1877 169

Interior of Oberfelders Outfitting Store, 1877 170

Overland Trail on the "Old Trails" Route For San Francisco . . . . 170

Pony Express and Overland Mail Office, Fort Kearney 170

An Old Prairie Schooner 172

Old Court, Sheriff's Residence 177

Cheyenne County Court House, Sidney 178

New High School, Sidney 180

Catholic Square, Sidney 180

Birdseye View, Sidney 181

Carnegie Library, Sidney 181

North Side of ShElden Street, Lodgepole 183

High School, Lodgepole 184

Blind Cannon Near Point of Rocks 186

■Methodist Church, Sidney 194

"Samie Girls" 197

How the Court House Was Moved to Hemingford 200

Box Butte County Court House, Alliance • . 201