While Captain Bourke’s narrative presents an extraordinarily interesting narration of adventure, its importance should be emphasized as an original contribution to the literature bearing upon the manners, customs, and religions of a peculiar and historic people, who have lived in Mexico and Arizona since the Spaniards first entered this portion of the country, in the middle of the sixteenth century. Captain Bourke was the first white man to witness many of the curious and picturesque customs of the Moqui Indians, particularly the famous Snake Dance.
“The work forms a valuable contribution to the study of native American ethnology, while its vivid descriptions of weird scenes, stirring incidents of travel, and characteristic anecdotes, culminating with the accounts of the tablet and snake dances, generally written in a plain unaffected style, make it very agreeable reading.”—The London Academy.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
AN APACHE CAMPAIGN
IN THE SIERRA MADRE.
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HISTORY OF THE SECOND ARMY CORPS
IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
By FRANCIS A. WALKER,
Brevet Brig.-Gen. U. S. Vols.; Asst. Adj.-Gen. of the Corps, Oct. 9, 1862-Jan. 12, 1865.
WITH THIRTY-ONE PORTRAITS AND THIRTY MAPS.
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