Transcriber's Note:

• Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Other errors are noted below.
• Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
• Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Word combinations that appeared with and without hyphens were changed to the predominant form if it could be determined, or to the hyphenated form if it could not.
• Corrections in the spelling of names were made when those could be verified. Otherwise the variations were left as they were.
• Corrections:
  • Page ix: Terwillijer's → Terwilliger's. (How Terwilliger's Cattle Stampeded.)
  • Page 21: Quantrell → Quantrill. (Quantrill was the last man he saw.)
  • Page 25: Ruffins → Ruffians. (The horde of Border Ruffians.)
  • Page 117: tie → tied them. (...could and tied them.)
  • Page 126: head the gully → head across the gully. (I turned to the south to head across the gully.)
  • Pages 128, 134: Loganstein → Lobenstein. (Lobenstein & Company.)
  • Page 149: jate → fate. (...and bemoaning his fate, as he called it.)
  • Page 299: spreckled → speckled. (...where the speckled trout leaps.)
  • Dedication page and others: Reese → Rees.
• Variants unchanged:
  • Arkansas and Arkansaw.
  • Rinced and rinsed.