The Indians themselves had lived there all their lives, had conquered their environment, and were happy in it.

They made a bitter fight; nor are they to be blamed for doing so.
The greatest of our Indian wars have taken place since our own Civil War; and perhaps the most notable of all the battles are those which were fought on the old cow range--in the land of our last frontier.

We do not lack abundant records of this time of our history.

Soon after the Civil War the railroads began edging out into the plains.

They brought, besides many new settlers, an abundance of chroniclers and historians and writers of hectic fiction or supposed fact.