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A linked set of eight short stories sketches life on the late nineteenth-century American frontier, focusing on encounters among soldiers, settlers, and Native communities. The pieces range from tribal councils and pretended medicine rites to Army scouting, legal tangles, and small domestic crises, blending anecdote, realism, and regional humor. Recurring figures provide continuity while individual episodes vary in tone from tense skirmish to quiet moral dilemma. The prose balances close observation with mild critique, highlighting cultural misunderstandings, social change, local speech, and landscape detail as traditional customs collide with expanding institutions.
[A] Let me no longer pervert General Crook’s military tactics. It was a dismounted charge that he ordered on this occasion, as a friend who was present has written me since the first publication of this story.
Mr. Remington’s illustration was made to suit the text in its original form.—Publisher’s Note.
Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters’ errors; otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author’s words and intent.