Transcriber Notes

The author spelled powderhorns on Page 46, but used a hyphen for powder-horns on Page 208. The inconsistencies were retained.

On Page 58 and Page 142 the word pack-horse was hyphenated between two lines. Since the author wrote pack-horse five times in the middle of a sentence, with the hyphen, and did not write packhorse, both words were transcribed pack-horse.

On Page 119, Tach-nech-dor-us was hyphenated between two lines. We transcribed the name with hyphens after each syllable, Tach-nech-dor-us, just as was done in the index.

The author referred to the back water men on Page 204. On Page 201, the “backwater men” were quoted. Major Patrick Ferguson capitalized Back Water, separated the syllables by a space, but alternately capitalized Men on Page 203, while not doing so in his proclamation presented on Page 213. In the same chapter, there were four different spellings for the same word, which we retained, and only point out to indicate that this is not an error in transcription.

On Page 299 in the index, changed the spelling of Opomingo to Opimingo to match the spelling in the text, for the index entry: Mountain Leader (Opomingo).