Contains Dr. Gray's meticulous research notes, particularly concerned with the American West in the late 1800's, and most specifically with Native American-US Army relations and conflicts. Topics include George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn, Mitch Boyer and the Boyer family, the Bozeman Trail, the Bruguier family, William F. Cody, the Comstock family, George Crook, Fort Collins, Fort Philip Kearney, the fur trade, the Galpin family, the Gerard family, James B. Hickock, Indian scouts, George M. Miles, Orlando H. Moore, Philetus W. Norris, the Picotte family, the Pony Express, Charley Reynolds, Joseph A. Slade, stage lines, Alfred Howe Terry, and the Utah campaign.