From the Book - University of Oklahoma Press edition
Growing up with the Audubons
Inspecting the "national park"
Collecting artifacts, fossils, and trophies
Illustrations: Grinnell in 1870, the year he went West -- "The Hemlocks, " Grinnell's home in Audubon Park -- Lucy Bakewell Audubon -- Audubon Park. The lithograph shows the naturalist's home and the Hudson near what is now 156th Street -- Grinnell's "bird room" -- Camp on the 1870 Marsh expedition -- Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the eve of the Marsh expedition's visit --
Illustrations: The 1870 Marsh expedition in Chicago on its way to the Great West: John Reed Nicholson, Grinnell, James W. Wadsworth, Marsh, Charles Wyllys Betts, Harry Degen Ziegler, Henry Bradford Sargent, John Wool Griswold, Alexander Hamilton Ewing, Eli Whitney, Charles McCormick Reeve, and James Russell -- The 1870 Marsh expedition in the field near Fort Bridger -- Omaha about 1870, when the town was on the edge of the frontier --
Illustrations: Painting showing the use of live steam to frighten buffalo away from the tracks / Union Pacific -- The hide hunter's work: forty thousand buffalo hides at Dodge City, Kansas, 1876 -- Countless tons of rotting buffalo bones were hauled to railroads for shipment East, to be ground into fertilizer -- Fort Bridger, one of the posts visited by the 1870 Marsh expedition -- Laramie, Wyoming Territory, shortly before the Marsh expedition passed through the settlement -- "Permanent" Pawnee village of earth lodges, Genoa, Nebraska, ca. 1872 --
Illustrations: Ute camp in Middle Park, Colorado, in the 1870s -- Ute Indians in Middle Park, Colorado, in the 1870s -- Scaffold burials of Crow Indians in Montana -- Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, ca. 1869 -- Hot Sulphur Springs, Middle Park, Colorado, in the 1870s -- Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory -- Camp (Fort) Baker, Montana Territory -- Fort Buford, Dakota Territory -- The Colorado River flowing through Middle Park, Colorado, 1874 -- Frank North -- Luther [Lute] North -- William H. Reed in 1879 --
Illustrations: Charley Reynolds -- Edward Salisbury Dana -- Old Peabody Museum -- Grizzly bear killed by Custer and his companions ...Bloody Knife, Custer, Custer's orderly and Captain William Ludlow / Illingworth -- Cheyenne, Wyoming, as it looked about 1884, when Grinnell used to stop there on business while en route to his ranch -- Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory -- Aerial photograph of the Como "Bluffs" in Wyoming, the famous "dinosaur field" in which Grinnell worked --
Illustrations: Custer's wagon train pulled up into four columns on the prairie, near the present state line between North and South Dakota / Illingworth? -- A rest stop on the Custer Expedition / Illingworth? -- One of Custer's camps in the Black Hills / Illingworth? -- Fort Clagett, Montana Territory -- The Josephine, the stern-wheeler Grinnell and his companions took up the Missouri -- Judge Carter's home at Fort Bridger -- Fort Ellis, Montana Territory -- Enlarged section showing Winchell, North, and Grinnell standing together -- Men of the Black Hills Expedition: Ludlow, McIntosh, Winchell, North, Grinnell, Forsyth, Bloody Knife, and Custer --
Illustrations: Custer's wagon train passing through the Black Hills / Illingworth
William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody
Reed and Bowles trading post with unidentified persons
The officers' quarters of Fort Bridger, ca. 1870 ... Judge William A. Carter
The Santa Barbara Mission ca. 1875, one of the "sights" Grinnell visited on his trip to Southern California
San Francisco as it looked shortly before Grinnell's visit in 1881
Hunters in North Park, Colorado, ca. 1880
Grinnell in Montana in his later years.
Maps: First trip of 1870 Marsh expedition
Second trip of 1870 Marsh expedition
Third trip of 1870 Marsh expedition
Reconnaissance of the Black Hills , July and August, 1874 / by Capt. Wm. [Captain William] Ludlow {Ludlow's map showing Custer's route to and from the Black Hills}
Montana to Yellowstone reconnaissance {Ludlow's map of the country transversed on the Yellowstone National Park Expedition} / redrawn by Andrea Brewster.
Growing up with the Audubons --
Hunting buffalo and elk --
Inspecting the "National Park" --
Collecting artifacts, fossils, and trophies.