Buckskin Mose / Or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide.

A first-person memoir traces life on the American frontier, following a performer-turned-detective through episodes as circus rider, ranger, gold seeker, scout, and guide, traveling from lake regions to the Pacific. It combines vivid adventure narratives—arrests, investigations, travel hardships, and frontier skirmishes—with practical sketches of landscape and camp life, and reflections on law, justice, and government policy toward Indigenous peoples. Anecdotal episodes alternate with critical observations about military and civil authority, showing how informal self-protection, official action, and local custom together shaped survival, character, and community life in the West.