IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I.

London:
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY.
1876.


LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO.,
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CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.

[Frontispiece]:—The Author painting a Chief in an Indian Village.

[Map of Indian Localities] embraced within the Author’s Travels.

[LETTER—No. 1.]

Wyöming, birth-place of the Author, [p. 2].—His former Profession—First cause of his Travels to the Indian Country—Delegation of Indians in Philadelphia—First start to the Far West, in 1832, [p. 3].—Design of forming a National Gallery—Numbers of Tribes visited, and number of Paintings and other things collected, [p. 4].—Probable extinction of the Indians, [p. 5].—Former and present numbers of—The proper mode of approaching them, and estimating their character, [p. 5–10].