CHAPTER XXIII

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 387

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER _Frontispiece_

PAGE MAP: INDIAN COUNTRY AND AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER, 1840-1841 22

CHIEF KEOKUK _facing_ 30

IOWA SOD PLOW. (From a Cut belonging to the Historical Department of Iowa.) 46

MAP: OVERLAND TRAILS 57

FORT LARAMIE, 1842 _facing_ 78

MAP: THE WEST IN 1849 120

MAP: THE WEST IN 1854 140

"HO FOR THE YELLOW STONE" _facing_ 144

THE MINING CAMP " 158

FORT SNELLING " 204

RED CLOUD AND PROFESSOR MARSH " 274

MAP: THE WEST IN 1863 300

POSITION OF RENO ON THE LITTLE BIG HORN _facing_ 360

MAP: THE PACIFIC RAILROADS, 1884 380

THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER