Buckskin Joe: Being the Unique and Vivid Memoirs of Edward Jonathan Hoyt, Hunter-Trapper, Scout, Soldier, Showman, Frontiersman, and Friend of the Indians, 1840-1918

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• Chapter I from the Cradle into the Woods 1
• Chapter II Out of the Woods into the Village 11
• Chapter III 25
• Chapter IV - On the Warpath--My First Year in the Civil War 35
• Chapter V from Flint Hill to the Chickahominy-- the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 49
• Chapter VI Out of the Hospital and Back to My Regiment--From the Battlefield to Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island--An Attempt on My Life by an Army Doctor and My Escape to Canada 63
• Chapter VII Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation and My Third Enlistment in 1865--The End of the Civil War--I Steal a Wife 71
• Chapter VIII Five Years on the Stage and in the Circus Ring, 1866 to 1870--Death of My Brother Warren 81
• Chapter IX off to a Life in the Far West--Southern Kansas and Indian Territory in the '70's, Scouting and Fighting Indians 91
• Chapter X the Indian War of 1874--Panic, Drought, and the Grasshopper Plague--I Organize the "Ragged-Ass Militia" 105
• Chapter XI My Return to Show Life, Traveling with the Laiscell Family Troupe as Bert Laiscell, "King of the High Rope"--Mining and Prospecting in Colorado, Trouble-Shooting for "Haw" Tabor--Caught in the Ute Indian Uprising of 1879, and a Race for Life 117
• Chapter XII More Colorado Experiences and Hair- Breadth Escapes, 1880-1883 137
• Chapter XV - Gold in Honduras--My Adventuring Days Are Over 171