Contents

A Note to the Reader

Articles

George W. Northrup: The Kit Carson of the Northwest
 Edward Eggleston
  Edited by the Rev. Louis Pfaller

Dakota Tin: British Invaders at Harney Peak
 William Turrentine Jackson

Publishing a Popular Historical Magazine
 Michael Kennedy

Book Reviews:

Newspapering in the Old West
 By Robert F. Karolevitz
  Reviewed by Robert Cory

The Mexican Mesta
 By William H. Dusenberry
  Reviewed by Wesley C. Wilson

The Day of the Bonanza: A History of Bonanza Farming in the Red River Valley of the North
 By Hiram M. Drache
  Reviewed by Herbert S. Schell

Lincoln's Secretary Goes West: Two Reports by John G. Nicolay on Frontier Indian Troubles, 1862
 Edited by Theodore C. Blegen
  Reviewed by Rhonda R. Gilman

Moorings Old and New: Entries in an Immigrant's Log
 By Paul Knaplund
  Reviewed by G. Rudolph Bjorgan

Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter
 By Tom Horn
  Reviewed by Katherine Halverson

Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem
 By James C. Olson
  Reviewed by R.H. Mattison

The West That Was: From Texas to Montana
 By John Leakey
  Reviewed by Donald H. Welsh

The Valley of the Upper Yellowstone: An Exploration of the Headwaters of the Yellowstone River in 1869
By Audrey L. Haines
 Reviewed by Roy E. Appleman

Report of the Superintendent of the State Historical Society of North Dakota to the Annual Meeting, Bismarck, October 23