Presents, through condensations of early court procedures, some of the wrenches to which the pioneer spirit was subject, in order to show us something of what the Rocky Mountain West was really like.

Account of the threat of an Indian war in 1915, growing out of the alleged murder of a Mexican by a Ute Indian, Tse-ne-gat, also called Everett Hatch. Headlines carrying news of the war in Europe took second place one day in 1915 when the Denver Rocky Mountain News carried this eight-column streamer: INDIAN BATTLE RAGES, 3 DEAD, TOWN IS IN PERIL. The battle was the "Ute War"-the last struggle of the American Indian to save his lands from range-hungry...