Getting acquainted : Fort Sumner, Pinos Wells, White Oaks -- Billy and the Lincoln County War -- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid -- Seven Rivers and Fort Sumner to Silver City in 1880 -- Southern Arizona and return to New Mexico, 1880 -- I go to work for Pat Coghlan -- How we guarded one of Pat Garrett's prisoners -- Recovering stolen horses from the Indians -- Life in the Sacramentos in 1881 -- Murder of the Nesmith family -- Arresting a murderer in 1883 in the Agua Chiquita country -- My association with Pat F. Garrett -- The Howe murder case -- The cowboys and their diversions -- Experiences in the early 1890s -- Feud murder on the Sacramento River -- Making hay where no grass grows now -- Calls 'em down -- Catching a slippery cow thief.