v. 1. The great medicine road of the whites -- The overland stage and telegraph lines -- Fort Laramie -- Fighting the Indians on both sides of the Platte -- The naming of Fort Caspar --The Indian fight at Platte Bridge Station -- The Bozeman Trail -- The Powder River Indian expedition -- The hated fort on the Little Piney -- The Fetterman Disaster -- v. 2. John Phillips, a hero of Fort Phil Kearny -- The Wagon Box fight -- Personal experiences in and around Fort Phil Kearny -- Route of the Bozeman Trail ; description of forts Reno, C.F. Smith, and Fetterman -- A Private's reminiscences of Fort Reno -- Fort C.F. Smith and the Hayfield fight -- Red Cloud, the great Ogallala Sioux war chief -- Jim Bridger : "the grand old man of the Rockies.".