Edited by Ripley Hitchcock.
“There is a vast extent of territory lying between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast which has barely been skimmed over so far. That the conditions of life therein are undergoing changes little short of marvelous will be understood when one recalls the fact that the first white male child born in Kansas is still living there; and Kansas is by no means one of the newer States. Revolutionary indeed has been the upturning of the old condition of affairs, and little remains thereof, and less will remain as each year goes by, until presently there will be only tradition of the Sioux and Comanches, the cowboy life, the wild horse, and the antelope. Histories, many of them, have been written about the Western country alluded to, but most if not practically all by outsiders who knew not personally that life of kaleidoscopic allurement. But ere it shall have vanished forever we are likely to have truthful, complete, and charming portrayals of it produced by men who actually know the life and have the power to describe it.”—Henry Edward Rood, in The Mail and Express.
NOW READY.
THE STORY OF THE INDIAN. By George Bird Grinnell, author of “Pawnee Hero Stories,” “Blackfoot Lodge Tales,” etc. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. $1.50.
“A valuable study of Indian life and character.... An attractive book, ... in large part one in which Indians themselves might have written.”—New York Tribune.
“Among the various books respecting the aborigines of America. Mr. Grinnell’s easily takes a leading position. He takes the reader directly to the camp-fire and the council, and shows us the American Indian as he really is.... A book which will convey much interesting knowledge respecting a race which is now fast passing away.”—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
“It must not be supposed that the volume is one only for scholars and libraries of reference. It is far more than that. While it is a true story, yet it is a story none the less abounding in picturesque description and charming anecdote. We regard it as a valuable contribution to American literature.”—N.Y. Mail and Express.
“A most attractive book, which presents an admirable graphic picture of the actual Indian, whose home life, religious observances, amusements, together with the various phases of his devotion to war and the chase, and finally the effects of encroaching civilization, are delineated with a certainty and an absence of sentimentalism or hostile prejudice that impart a peculiar distinction to this eloquent story of a passing life.”—Buffalo Commercial.
“No man is better qualified than Mr. Grinnell to introduce this series with the story of the original owner of the West, the North American Indian. Long acquaintance and association with the Indians, and membership in a tribe, combined with a high degree of literary ability and thorough education, has fitted the author to understand the red man and to present him fairly to others.”—New York Observer.
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