Footprints on the frontier : saga of the La Ramie region of Wyoming
(Book)

Preface / Frances Birkhead Beard

Cavalcade through the wilderness (exploration and migration): Path breakers and trail makers: Early explorers; First emigrants ; Fort Laramie, the gateway to the West: As a trading post; As a garrison ; The master trail to Oregon: Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, California Trail; Legends of the Oregon, Mormon, and California Trails; Overland Trail, overland telegraph; Bridger's Ferry on the Overland Trail; Legends of the Overland Trail; Landmarks on the trails ; "Voila les Sioux!": The Grattan massacre; Massacre at Bordeaux Bend; The bloody trail massacre; Depredations of 1876 ; The bold chieftain, Crazy Horse: The battle of Horseshoe Creek / J.R. Smith; Crazy Horse is subdued ; Cheyenne trails: The Cheyenne-Fetterman Road: "Ves" Sherman, bull-whacker; Indian fight on Elkhorn / Sylvester Sherman; The Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail: The road agents; Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok; Holdup at Cold Springs / Scott Davis; George Lathrop, stage driver

Reclamation of the wilderness (settlement and development), era of public domain: Nucleus of the cattle industry in Wyoming: First herds in the state; Resume of the cattle period / A.J. Mokler ; Up the Texas trail with the Shaw brothers: Tom Shaw's story; Jim Shaw follows ; Heyday for the cattlemen: The Duck Bar Company: Hunting on the Laramie Plains; Jim Shaw becomes a "rep"; Swan Land and Cattle Company ; Rustling becomes a menace: The Johnson County fiasco; Tom Horn, cattle detective; Private ownership ; Along the streams: Platte River and the border towns: Casper honors Caspar Collins; Deer Creek Station becomes Glenrock; Fort Fetterman and Douglas; The Horse Creek country ; Along the streams (cont.): La Ramie's rivers: "Where the Laramie flows"; "Little Dublin" on the upper Laramie; "Glasgow" on the North Laramie; Cow camp incident on Fish Creek; At the forks of Laramie's rivers (Uva); The lower Laramie ; Along the streams (concluded): Other tributaries: Chugwater, Sybille, Cottonwood, and Horseshoe Creeks ; Along the trails: James Bordeaux, the bourgeois, and his road ranch: Pioneer days at Bordeaux / John Hunton; Bordeaux's first Sunday school; "Little Bat" and his contemporary [Bob Chesnut] ; Along the rails: Cheyenne, the Magic City of the Plains; Early-day stories of Laramie City; University of Wyoming; Laramie Plains; Rock Creek and Rock River ; Early industrial areas: In the Laramie Mountains: Fletcher's Park; Florence and Keystone; Esterbrook; In the Guernsey region

Frenchy Cazabon's discovery ; Agricultural areas: Irrigation project of the Wyoming Development Company: Early incidents in the history of Wheatland Flats; The town of Wheatland; Dry farming by trial and error: Goche's Hole or the land of Goshen; Slater Flats and Iowa Center ; Reclamation processes review

Addenda: I. Jacques La Ramie / Grace Raymond Hebard ; II. The Bozeman Trail / Lillian L. Van Burgh.