Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Map, ........ Little Robe (Tuk-kee-o-mah), Chief of the Cheyennes, Little Raven, Head Chief of the Arrapahoes, ... v Bird Chief, War-Chief of the Arrapnhoes, - - Early Days in Denver (1859), - - - Buffalo on the Plains, - - - - f - Charge of a Buffalo Bull, - - - - Indians Hunting Buffalo ..... Slaughter of Buffalo on the Kansas Pacific Ilailroad, - - Peace or War 1 — Indian Council - - The Peace Commission at Vork, Celebrating Victory.— The Scalp Dance, - - - 'Okolohama,' the Last Home of the Indians, A Dakota or Sioux Belle, - - Indians at Home in Tepees. — Drying Buffalo Moat for Winter Food, ... - The Noontide Repast on the War Path, ... Grand Chief of the Pawnees, - - - . .- . Emigrants Crossing Laramie Plains in 1808.— The Sioux Preparing for their Reception, ... Emigrants Encamped. — The Night Attack, ... Indians Returning with the Results of a Border Raid, xxiv xxv xxvi Iviii 119 128 189 143 205 270 278 290 294 353 371 373 379 380 401 INTEODUCTION. The truism that ' good wine needs no bush,' is equally applicable to the fact that a good book requires no introduction. In the present instance, I have been induced to depart from this sound maxim at the instance of the publishers, who, from my bibliographical and personal knowledge of the Aborigines of North America, have requested me to give a brief sketch of some of the principal Indian tribes, referred to in this book; the chief events of the last fifteen years; and the probable fate of the red man. With reference to my knowledge of the North American Indians, I may mention that during the last thirty years it has been my constant effort to collect and read all that has been written relative to these Aborigines, whilst during the ...