The Marquis de Morès: Emperor of the Bad Lands

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. First edition (stated). xi, 282 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 22 cm Fine in fine jacket in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780806108698, 080610869X

Contents: I. The Emperor of the Bad Lands. II. De Morès' background. III. The Town of Little Missouri: The Bad Lands. IV. The Building of Medora. V. De Morès fences his land. VI. Open war on de Morès. VII. Justice-of-the-Peace justice. VIII. Medora in 1883 after the first trial. IX. Medora in 1884 and 1885. X. The Bad Lands cow boy. XI. De Mores and Theodore Roosevelt. XII. Life in the Bad Lands for the de Morèses. XIII. De Morès' business and the beef trust. XIV. De Morès' other business enterprises. XV. The Medora-Deadwood Stage Line. XVI. The Third trial. XVII. Rustling and "The Stranglers". XVIII. The Collapse. XIX. Paris and the Orient. XX. Reconnaissance and Intrigue in French Indochina. XXI. France-Politics-Duels. XXII. Africa-The Assassination. XXIII. The Assassins Tried-French Government Complicity. XXIV. Return to the Bad Lands.