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Subject Matter Discussed in this Work (Partial Only, See Full Contents Below): My Life and Experiences Among Hostile Indians Major-General Oliver O. Howard Illustrated Chromolithographic Plates American Indian Wars United States Cavalry Native American Great Plains Prairie Old West Western States Major Dade Massacre Seminole war Sioux Uprising Minnesota Modoc War California Nez Perce War Chief Joseph Dr. Marcus Whitman Massacre Walla Walla Washington Paiute Bannock War Idaho Nevada Messiah Craze Ghost Dance Sioux Indians General George Armstrong Custer Massacre Little Bighorn Indian Life Habits Traits Religion Ceremony Dress Customs West Point Military Academy Bowdoin College Everglades Florida General Sherman General George H Thomas Civil War Confederate Army Chief Little Crow Hostile Indians Apache Indians Cochise Apache Chief Arizona Yuma Indians Alkali Desert Pima Maricopa Indians Tucson General Crook Indian Fighter Apache Dress Ornament Columbia River Oregon Washington Idaho Alaska Portland Oregon Modoc Indians Captain Jack Lava Beds General Canby Nez Perces Fort Lapwai Medicine Men Columbia River Indians Battle of White Bird Canyon Neetmok Battle of the Clear Water Reservation Indians Puget Sound Painted Faces Fort Wrangel Sitka Indians Chilcat Indians Sumdum Indians Pacific Coast Tribes Flathead Indians Flathead Indians Fur Companies Missionary Life Tomahawk Spokane Indians Bannock Indians Battle of Birch Creek Sarah Winnemucca Crow Indians Lolo Trail Sioux Indians Brule Indians Omaha Dance Sun Dance Sitting Bul Rosebud Agency Battle of Wounded Knee Creek Doherty’s Description Slaughter Cheyenne Indians Custer Massacre Frontier Tragedy Chief Red Horse Crazy Horse Squaw Men Sign Language Scalp Dance Scalping Medicine Bags Totems Ornaments Kiowa Chief Santanta Cruelty Orators Horsemanship

MY LIFE AND EXPERIENCES AMONG OUR HOSTILE INDIANS A Record of Personal Observations, Adventures and Campaigns Among the Indians of the Great West. With Some Account of Their Life, Habits, Traits, Religion, Ceremonies, Dress, Savage Instincts, and Customs in Peace and War. By Major-General O.O. Howard, United States Army (retired). Published in 1907 by A.D. Worthington & Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 9” x 6” cloth hardcover. “Beautifully Illustrated with Full Page Engravings, Chiefly from Photographs Supplied by the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, and a Series of Colored Plates Showing Indian Objects of Interest and Curiosity in Facsimile.” 570 pages.

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Description:

An authoritative chronicle of the American Indians War of the 1880s and 1890s, recorded by a man who was a principle participant.

Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. After the close of the war, he was given charge of the Freedmen's Bureau in mid-1865, with the mission of integrating the freed slaves into Southern society and politics during the second phase of the Reconstruction Era.

In 1872, Howard brought his characteristic courage and sense of commitment to the American West when he was dispatched by the Grant administration to meet with the Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise and bring an end to his decade-long guerilla war against American settlers.

Travelling almost alone, Howard entered the Apache chief's stronghold and secured a peace agreement by promising him a reservation of his own choosing. His negotiations with Cochise ultimately resulted in an executive order which set aside nearly the whole southeastern corner of the Arizona Territory as a Chiricahua reservation on which Cochise and his people could live with little meddling from the army.

Five years later, in 1877, Howard faced a different situation in Oregon, where he was sent to persuade a Nez Percé band led by Chief Joseph to leave their homeland in the Wallowa Valley for the reservation assigned to them in Lapwai, Idaho. Howard found himself agreeing with Joseph that his people had never signed a treaty giving up their homeland, but in Howard's view this did not change the fact that eastern Oregon was no longer a place where Indians could roam free.

After his offer to purchase the valley was rejected, Howard made it clear that he would use force to move the Nez Percé as he had been commanded. And despite his sympathies for Joseph's band, he did not hesitate to send his troops against them when Nez Percé warriors killed several white settlers in the area.

In MY LIFE AND EXPERIENCES AMONG OUR HOSTILE INDIANS, General Howard gives his own personal account of his adventures in Indian territory, including a detailed narrative of his interactions with Cochise and the Apache and the doomed negotiations with Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce.

Howard also takes the opportunity to recount other historic clashes between U.S. forces and Native American warriors in the western theatre, which he had personal knowledge of or had obtained from other officers of his acquaintance, including his own experiences in the early Seminole Wars. Naturally, he also chronicles the Custer Massacre by the Sioux at the Little Bighorn River, as no Indian war record is really complete without it.

The literary merits and historic value of the book are worthy of all the labor and expense bestowed upon it by the publishers. General Howard’s is the plain direct lucid style of the soldier. Among the historical events narrated by General Howard with much valuable detail are:

The “Dade Massacre” - The destruction of Major Dade and his command in a battle of the Seminole War in 1835

The “Sioux Uprising” in Minnesota in 1862

The Modoc War in California, 1872-1873

The Nez Perce War of June – October, 1877

Dr. Marcus Whitman’s overland journey, and the murder of himself and his family by Cayuse Indians at Walla Walla, Washington territory, in 1847

The Paiute and Bannock War in the summer of 1878 in Idaho and Nevada

The Messiah craze or Ghost Dance among the Sioux in 1890

The annihilation of General George A. Custer and his command at the Little Big Horn in 1876

And more.

Besides the historical facts set forth, Major-General Howard also gives an account of the life, habit, traits, religion, ceremonies, dress, savage instincts, and customs in peace and war of the Indians of the Great West.

He states in the Preface:

In this volume I have endeavored to tell the story of my life and personal experiences among the Indian tribes with which the fortunes of war brought me in contact, sometimes in efforts to bring about peace, at other times in deadly strife with a foe as brave, resourceful, and relentless as any savage race of which we have knowledge.

MY LIFE AND EXPERIENCES AMONG OUR HOSTILE INDIANS presents all the salient facts of the history of the white man and the red in America during the second half of the 19th century from the pen of an authoritative writer. It contains a vast amount of interesting information about a large number of tribes on a great variety of topics.

The book also features a series of breathtaking full color, chromo-lithograph plates of Indian clothing, weapons, and other articles (including two rather gruesome necklaces decorated with fingers of the human hand, and one showing Indian and white scalps), produced in the exact colors of the objects represented. Each plate required fifteen different printings, and one engraved stone was needed for each color.

The publisher says of these illustrations:

The colored plates show Indian objects of interest and curiosity with as much fidelity to the originals as is possible for human hands to do. Many of them belong to the government and are on public exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, where they may be studied in glass show-cases, safe from the despoiling hands of curiosity-seekers and relic-hunters. By far the greater number, however, are carefully stowed away in boxes, under the care of officials, and prying eyes are not permitted to see, much less meddlesome hands to handle them.

In the case of the human finger necklace, the publisher explains that it was used by permission of

“the late Captain John G. Bourke, a brave and experienced Indian fighter, who during his fatal illness sent permission to the publishers to use the necklace of human fingers, a facsimile of which appears in this volume. Captain Bourke himself captured this necklace from the Indians, and the story of its capture and of the significance of this gruesome object of Indian barbarity is told in his own words. They would also mention Mr. James Mooney, who for many years lived among the Indians as one of them, and who has contributed to the government collection many unique articles of Indian ornaments, dress, and equipment; he kindly loaned the original Indian drawings from which the illustrations were made that accompany his translation of the unique story of the Giant Sinti.

Taken as a whole, these illustrations portray Indian life and scenes with fidelity to nature. Some of the portraits of noted Indian warriors were photographed many years ago in their absolutely wild state amid their native surroundings.

It was from these almost inaccessible collections that many of the Indian artifacts shown in this volume were selected.

A contemporary reviewer said of MY LIFE AND EXPERIENCES AMONG OUR HOSTILE INDIANS:

It is an animated narrative which may be commended not only as thoroughly readable but as sympathetic with the effort to raise the American Indian from a condition of ignorant savagery to that of industrious citizenship. The story is full of incidents and anecdotes, and is entertaining as well as instructive.

Contents Are:

CHAPTER ONE ~ MY BOYHOOD AND EARLY HOME – SCHOOL AND COLLEGE DAYS – APPOINTED AS A CADET TO WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY: Looking Backward * Recollections of my Parents * Grandfather's Chimney Corner * The Old Home in Maine * Listening to Grandfather's Indian Tales * My Father's Deaths * Working as Man-of-all-Work for my Board * Attending the Village School * Entering Bowdoin College * Appointed as a Cadet to West Point * A Momentous Step * Going Forth into the World * Arrival at West Point * Warned to Dispense with my Silk Hat and Cane * " Stand Straight, Sir! " * Reminiscences of West Point

CHAPTER TWO ~ CHASING INDIANS THROUGH THE EVERGLADES OF FLORIDA – INDIAN FIGHTERS WHO AFTERWARDS BECAME GREAT MILITARY LEADERS IN THE CIVIL WAR: The Story of Major Dade * Indian Campaigns in Florida * General Sherman's Early Indian Experiences * In the Heart of the Everglades * A Sudden and Unexpected Attack * Massacre of Major Dade and His Command * Viewing the Slain and Mutilated Bodies of Our Troops * Defeat and Flight of the Indians * My First Meeting with General George H. Thomas * Some of His Early Indian Experiences * His Own Account of a " Scout " against the Apaches * Pulling Arrows out of His Own Flesh * His Unwavering Loyalty to the Union

CHAPTER THREE ~ GRADUATING FROM WEST POINT – MY MARRIAGE – FIRST CALL TO ACTIVE DUTY – BREAKING UP OUR HOUSEHOLD: My Graduation from West Point * A Memorable Year * My Marriage * Settling our Home * First Sudden Call to Duty * The Consternation it Occasioned * Scattering of the Family * Ordered to Florida * A Renowned Indian Fighter * The Seminoles * Hiding in the Great Cypress Swamps * " Billy Bowlegs," the Chosen Seminole Leader * Raiding the Settlements * An Amusing Interpreter * Meeting Young Officers Who Were Afterwards Generals in the Civil War * Recollections of Them * A Crazy Soldier and an Unpleasant Episode * An Undignified Escape from Indians

CHAPTER FOUR – CAMPAIGNING AGAINST THE SEMINOLES – INCIDENTS AND EXPERIENCES OF MY ARMY LIFE IN FLORIDA: Breakfasting with General Harney * "Mr. Howard, you will be my Chief of Ordnance" * Becoming Accustomed to my Surroundings * A Pleasant Resort * Mustering Volunteers into Service * General Harney Relieved from Command * "We Haven't Lost any Indians" * Dislike of the Regulars for Indian Service * Chasing Indians from Place to Place * Seeking Peace * Ordered to Find "Billy Bowlegs " * A Journey into the Interior * New and Fresh Experiences * A Nap Better than a Toddy * Great Stature of the Seminoles * Their Physical Superiority over other Indians * Seminole Women * Making a " Good Peace”

CHAPTER FIVE ~ SKETCH OF MY MILITARY CAREER DURING THE CIVIL WAR – ATTITUDE OF OUR WILD INDIANS DURING THAT PERIOD: On Duty at West Point as Instructor in Mathematics * A Congenial Position * Thoughts of Entering the Gospel Ministry * Fall of Fort Sumter * Opening of the Civil War * Solving Some Personal Problems * I Become Colonel of a Maine Regiment * Rapid Promotion * Active Military Service * Restless and Troublesome Indians * Condition of Affairs in the Indian Territory * Recruiting Indians for the Confederate Army * An Important Treaty * Effect of the Civil War on the Indian Question

CHAPTER SIX ~ GREAT UPRISING OF HOSTILE INDIANS IN THE NORTHWEST – THE TERRIBLE SIOUX MASSACRE IN MINNESOTA: Trouble with the Indians on the Border * Uneasy Savages of the Northwest * Threatened Outbreak of the Sioux * Red Iron's Eloquent Speech * The Great Uprising * The Crafty and Notorious Chief Little Crow * A Reign of Terror, Murder, Rapine, and Pillage * Indiscriminate Slaughter of White Men, Women, and Children * Settlers Banding Together for Defense * A Resolute White Leader * A Fearful Onslaught * Bloody Campaign Against the Sioux * Defeat of Little Crow * Trial of Five Hundred Hostile Indians * Execution of Thirty-eight of them upon One Scaffold * Where and How They Were Buried * Death of Little Crow

CHAPTER SEVEN ~ ASSIGNED TO DUTY AMONG THE BLOODTHIRSTY APACHES – MY ARRIVAL IN ARIZONA: A New Field of Labor * " Grant's Peace Policy" * The Fierce and Murderous Apaches * A Roaming and Warlike Tribe * Cochise, the Notorious Apache Chief * An Elusive and Dangerous Foe * Their Sudden Descents on Scattered Settlements * Slaying Every White Man Far and Near * My Arrival at Fort Yuma * No Rain for Three Years * A Six-mule Ambulance * "Dismal Jeems " * An Extraordinary Driver * Comical Dignity of an Indian Chief * Vanished Pomp and Pride * Appearance of the Yumas * Arizona Sand Storms

CHAPTER EIGHT ~ CAMPAIGNING IN ARIZONA – JOURNEYING ACROSS THE "ALKALI DESERT" – LIFE AMONG THE PIMAS AND MARICOPAS: Disagreeable Effects of Alkali Dust * A Ration of Raw Onions * " Oh, Pshaw! The General Would Eat a Boiled Crow! " * A New Way Of Obtaining Self-Control * Trailing the Apaches * Doherty’s Description * Tales Told by " Dismal Jeems " * A Dry and Barren Country * My Pima Indian Interpreter * Civilizing Wild Indians with a Melodeon * A Man with a Remarkable History * A Queer Missionary * " Let the Parson Preach! " * Religious Service in a Frontier Saloon * Oddly Constructed Houses * A Missionary Bride

CHAPTER NINE ~ IN AND AROUND TUCSON – INTENSE FEELING AGAINST THE INDIANS OF ARIZONA – A TRAGIC INCIDENT: A Typical Frontier Character * A Mucli Armed Sheriff * A Walking Arsenal * Among the Papagoes * Indians Who Embraced the Roman Catholic Religion * A Mexican Dancing Party * An Attractive Indian Maiden * A Harmless Flirtation * Ludicrous Mistake of my Aid-de-Camp * " Good Pigs, Senorita ! " * Hospitality of an Army Post * Trying the White Man's Ways * My Mexican Half-breed Interpreter * Capable but Dirty * My Devoted Friend, Chief " Santo " * Outrageous Attack on Indians While Feasting and Dancing * Wounding Little Boys and Girls

CHAPTER TEN ~ MEETING GENERAL CROOK – INDIANS PLEADING FOR THE RETURN OF THEIR CHILDREN – HOW A MOMENTOUS QUESTION WAS DECIDED: A Great Indian Fighter * General Crook's Attitude Toward the Indians * Roads Infested by Hostiles * The White Flag * Hungry and Tired of Fighting * Lieutenant Ebstein's Experience * Results of Kind Treatment * Dress and Ornaments of the Apaches * Endurance and Speed of Indian Runners * A Wonderful Journey on Foot * Gathering of the Apaches * A Council Made up of Hostile Factions * Anxious Hours * Indians Present their Grievances * How I Matured my Plans * Praying for Guidance * A Wonderful Scene

CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ SELECTING A DELEGATION OF WILD APACHES TO VISIT WASHINGTON – GREAT FEAR OF THE JOURNEY – CALLING UPON THE PRESIDENT: Close of the Great Council * A Visit from Tribe to Tribe * Midnight Visit to an Indian Camp * A Rough March * Arranging Details of the Journey to Washington * Getting the Party Together * Parting Scenes between Chiefs and their Families * First Lesson in the Use of Knives, Forks, and Spoons * Trust Begets Trust * Loud Murmurs in a Discontented Camp * First Glimpse of a Railroad * Indian Amazement and Curiosity * First Ride in the Cars * Crouching Upon the Floor in Abject Terror * Calling Upon the President * Opening their Hearts to Him

CHAPTER TWELVE ~ I SET OUT TO FIND THE NOTORIOUS CHIEF, COCHISE: Great Assembly of Relatives and Friends to Meet the Returning Braves * Chief Meguil and his Glass Eye * Some Astonished Indians * Following the White Man's Ways * Determined Efforts to Find Cochise * " Snake, General, Snake ! " * Close Call from a Rattlesnake * Meeting with "Tom Jeffords" * "He's a Bad Egg" * Agrees to Take Me to the Camp of Cochise * Starting on the Journey * A Strange and Suspicious Group * Threatened by Angry Miners * Adventure with a Desperate Prospector * Following an Apache Trail * Communicating Signs by Smoke * Arrival at Cochise's Stronghold * Meeting One of His Wives

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SCOUTING FOR THE APACHE CHIEF, COCHISE – ENTERING HIS MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD – FIRST NIGHT IN A WILD CAMP: Setting Out to Find Cochise * " General, Aren't You Doing Wrong?" * Marching Under a Cloudless Sky * A Camp Without Water * An Offer of Whisky in Place of Food * A Midnight March * An Ideal Camp * Little Savage Guides * In an Apache Camp * Neetmok! * No Word from Cochise * "Will it be Peace?" * "He is Coming!" * The Apaches Prepare to Receive their Chief * Arrival of Cochise * " This is the Man " * His Appearance * A Long and Interesting Interview * Some Startling Questions * A Midnight Scare * My Return Through a Dangerous Country

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ MY EXPERIENCES IN A WILD APACHE CAMP – FAREWELL TO COCHISE: Getting Acquainted with Cochise * A Dance of Welcome * Becoming Conduct of Indian Women * Apache Mothers * Inviting Cochise to Dinner * Some Ludicrous Table Manners * Eating from my Plate and Drinking from my Cup * A Sudden and Startling Alarm * Cochise Becomes Intoxicated, Unruly, and Violent * Disquieting Rumors * Managing Rough and Troublesome 'Customers * A Strange Ceremony and Weird Performance * An Embarrassing Offer * A Chief Covets my Mules * Offers to Exchange Two of His Wives for Them * Farewell to Cochise

CHAPTER FIFTEEN ~ ASSIGNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA, EMBRACING ALL THE NORTHWEST – THE MODOCS AND THE MODOC WAR: An Arduous Task * Ordered to Report to General W. T. Sherman * Assigned to the Department of the Columbia * A Field Embracing Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska * My Arrival at Portland, Oregon * The Modocs and their Chief, " Captain Jack " * Causes that Led to the Modoc War * Old Hostilities Revived * Attempting to Arrest the Leaders * The Modoc Strongholds in the Lava Beds * Massacre of General Canby and of Dr. Thomas * Defeat and Capture of the Modocs * " Scar-faced Charlie " * End of the Modoc Campaign

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ~ THREATENED HOSTILITIES – A TRIBE THAT CAUSED TERROR TO THE WHITE PEOPLE OF THE NORTHWEST: Twenty-five Distinct Tribes of Indians in my New Field * The Nez Perces * Their Dress and Appearance * Decoration of Their Horses * Fondness for Bright Colors and Picturesque Attires * Fanciful Dress of the Children * The Famous Nez Perce Chief Joseph * An Indian Feud * Chief White Bird and His Band * Indian " Dreamers " and " Tooats " * A Lazy Interpreter * A Message from Chief Joseph * A Dignified Procession * A Ceremonious Call * Clinging to Old Haunts * " We Want Nothing from You" * Efforts to Avert the War

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ~ MY ARRIVAL AT FORT LAPWAI – GROWING DISCONTENT AND INSOLENCE OF THE INDIANS – FEARS OF AN OUTBREAK: An Important Indian Council * Happy " Medicine Men " * A Picturesque Indian Procession * A Suspicious Gathering * A Fear-inspiring Song * My Plain Talk to Chief Joseph * His Reply * "They Treat me like a Dog " * Growing Excitement * Defiant Attitude of the Hostiles * Ominous Signs * Efforts to Conciliate the Indians * An Immediate Uprising Threatened * A Fierce Rejoinder * "I am the Man " * An Obstinate and Angry Indian * Thrusting a Mischiefmaker out of the Council * Averting the Crisis * A Distrusted Indian Chief

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~ AMONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER INDIANS - INCIDENTS AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCES – “CUT-MOUTH JOHN": Up the Columbia River * Smohollie, a Pompous Indian of Important Manner * Standing on His Dignity * Treating Him with Indifference * Changing His Mind * Sending for an Interpreter * Renegade Indians * Wild and Fierce to the Last * The " Skookum-House " * An Insubordinate Old Chief * United Against the Whites * An Odd Character * A Sea-sick and Disgusted Indian * " Cut-Mouth John " * How He Acquired His Name * Introducing Himself to Me * His Dirty and Comical Uniform * A Ludicrous Spectacle * Trying to be a White Man

CHAPTER NINETEEN ~ BIDDING ADIEU TO MY FAMILY FOR WHAT PROVES TO BE A LONG ABSENCE – ON THE VERGE OF A BLOODY INDIAN WAR: Chief Joseph's Bad Conduct * Robbing a Missionary's House * Miraculous escape from Bloody Hands * Resting in Comfort, Peace, and Hope * My Fourteen *' Commanding Officers " * An Old Comrade of the Civil War * Chief Joseph's Unconverted Heart * Guarding Against Indian Treachery * Release of Old Skemiah from the " Skookum-house " * His Grievances and Plea to go Back to the Reservation * Bidding Adieu to my Family * It Proves to be a Long One * On the Verge of a Bloody War

CHAPTER TWENTY ~ OPENING OF HOSTILITIES – BATTLES OF WHITE BIRD CANYON AND THE CLEAR WATER: A Disquieting Message * Starting for the Front * Rendezvous of Chief Joseph and the Hostiles * Discovering the Indian Camp * Guarding Against Surprise * Murdering a Husband in the Presence of His Wife * Women and Children at the Mercy of Savages * Indescribable Brutalities * The Battle of White Bird Canyon * Slaughter of the Troops * Death of Lieutenant Theller * Neetmok attacks * Defeated by the Indians * Burial of Our Slain Comrades * A Forced March * An Indian Ambuscade * Battle of the Clear Water * Flight of the Indians * Preparation for a Long Chase

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE ~ PURSUIT AND DEFEAT OF THE INDIANS – SURRENDER OF CHIEF JOSEPH: Marching through a Rough Country * Word from General Gibbon * An Experienced Scout and Frontiersman * The Fl6eing Indians Turn Back Upon Me * A Vicious Night Attack * Half-breed Bucking Ponies * Arrival in the National Park * Murdering a Party of Visitors * Lost in the Forest * " The Howard Road " * Unwearied and Relentless Pursuit of the Indians * An Adroit Indian Chief * Running the Gauntlet * The Surrender

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO ~ STARTING FOR ALASKA – EXPERIENCES WITH ALASKAN CHIEFS AND TRIBES: Reservation Indians of Puget Sound * Evil Results of Dissolute White Men Mingling with Indians * Indians as Coal Miners * Wonderfully Picturesque and Varied Scenery * Arrival at Fort Wrangel * Some Dejected Indians * Listening to their Grievances * Influence of Strong Drink * Presenting a Tribe with the Dead Body of their Chief * A Dance of Satisfaction * A Pantomime Show * Begging for a Teacher * Hideously-painted Faces * Sitka Indian Chiefs * Extreme Poverty and Vicious Indulgence * Brief Sketch of Colonel Guy Howard's Career

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ~ OUR JOURNEY TO ALASKA CONTINUED – A VISIT TO THE CHILCATS, THE SUMDUMS, AND OTHER PACIFIC COAST TRIBES: Pacific Coast Indians * Their Domestic Life * A Patient Indian Sufferer * A Contrary Old Woman * " Sitka Jack " * Among the Chilcats * A Faithful Watcher * Home of the Sumdums * Ice-bergs, Glaciers, and Picturesque Scenery * Celebrating the Battle of Bunker Hill * Describing the Battlefield of Gettysburg * Home-ward Bound * A Methodist Missionary's Home * Religious Service in an Indian Village * How it was Conducted * Publishing Marriage Banns * Extraordinary Changes in Indian Life * A Skeptical Office * Ascending the Columbia River

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ~ THE STORY OF MARCUS WHITMAN – THRILLING ACCOUNT OF HIS PERILOUS OVERLAND JOURNEY: The Story of Doctor Whitman's Life * The Remarkable Journey of Four Flathead Indians * The Quest for "The White Man's Book of Life " * A Brave Methodist Pioneer * Open Hostilities of the Great Fur Companies * Starting on a Perilous Journey * His Return and Marriage * Organizing Another Expedition * Dangerous Journey for Brides * Toils and Privations of Frontier Missionary Life * Instigating a Massacre * An " Indiscreet Conversation " * Whitman's Remarkable Journey to Washington * Unspeakable Hardships * Mutterings .of the Coming Storm

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ~ A FRONTIER TRAGEDY – THE COLD-BLOODED MASSACRE OF MARCUS WHITMAN AND HIS FAMILY: Scene of the Brutal Massacre * Unsuspecting Settlers Engaged in Peaceful Avocations * Hovering and Watchful Indians * Sudden Appearance of Indians at an Open Door * Dr. Whitman Asked to Come into the Kitchen * The Deadly Tomahawk * Fighting for Life * Ghastly Scenes * " Oh, the Indians ! the Indians I " * The Infamous Murderer " Joe Lewis " * Death of Dr. Whitman * Heroic Efforts of His Wife to Save His Life * Discovering the Hidden Children * Dreadful and Heartrending Scenes * ''We Will Now Burn ! " * Assassination of Mrs. Whitman * Desperate Struggles for Life * Escape of the Few Survivors

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ~ CAMPAIGNING ON THE UPPER COLUMBIA – EXPERIENCES WITH MOSES, WAR-CHIEF OF THE SPOKANES – HIS OWN NARRATIVE: Moses, the War-Chief of the Spokanes * His Personal Appearance * A Diplomatic Indian * Some Hostile Threats * Fears of an Outbreak * My Letter to Chief Moses * His Reply * The Gathering War Clouds * Efforts to Pacify Moses * Starting for His Camp * Moses and Sixty Painted Warriors Advance to Meet Me * Hunting for the Murderers of the Perkins Family * Arrest of Moses and His Imprisonment * The Story of His Experiences Narrated by Himself * " Our Hearts are One”

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ~ ADVENTURES AMONG THE BANNOCKS – A MIDNIGHT WAR DANCE AND ITS SEQUENCE: The Bannocks * Their Good Mounts and Equipment * A Shocking Incident * My Bannock Scouts * Mysterious Disappearance of Twenty Horses * How I Made the Indians Recover Them * A Distrusted Chief * An Exciting Midnight Scene * War- Dance of the Bannocks * An Uneasy Night in Camp * Demanding Permission to Kill Three of My Scouts * Getting the Best of the Bannocks * Execution of an Indian * Surrounding the Indians * Fair Promises but Hollow Hearts * Plans for Revenge * An Old Indian Legend * Looking Forward to a Resurrection

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT ~ PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER CAMPAIGN – OPENING OF THE PI-UTE AND BANNOCK WAR: The Noted Pi-Ute Chief Egan * An Indian Princess and Her Interesting History * An Anxious Night in Camp * Some Wakeful Hours * Fresh Troubles with the Bannocks * The Discontented Pi-Utes * The Promised Resurrection of Indians * Anticipating an Outbreak * The Lava Beds of the Modocs * A Desolate and Sterile Region * An Ideal Place for Ambush * Preparations for Another Campaign * Constant Murders and Outrages * Weakening an Indian's Courage * Terrified and Fleeing Settlers * The Wary Chief Buffalo Horn * An Indian Woman's Loyal Service

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE ~ IN ACTIVE FIELD SERVICE AGAIN – SARAH WINNEMUCCA'S REMARKABLE RIDE * NEARING THE INDIAN STRONGHOLD: Planning the Campaign * Active Field Service * Sarah Winnemucca's Ride * The Story She Brought * Fresh From the Hostile Camp * Incidents of Sarah's Remarkable Journey * Scenes Along a Bloody Trail * " Who Are You ? " * Climbing Steep and Rocky Mountains on Hands and Knees * "Oh, Sarah, You Have Come to Save Us! " * An Old Indian Chief's Advice * Escaping from the Hostile Camp * Followed by the Bannocks * Some Brave Women and their Escort * A Strong Force of Indian Warriors

CHAPTER THIRTY ~ INCIDENTS AND HARDSHIPS OF AN INDIAN CAMPAIGN – THE BATTLE OF BIRCH CREEK – FLIGHT OF THE INDIANS: A Chosen Indian Leader * Panic in an Indian Camp * Indian Women for Guides * Alarming Rumors * The Battle of Curry Creek * Camp of the Renegades * An Innocent-looking Log * Pulling an Old Indian Squaw Out of It * Pursuing the Indians * Picking up a White Man's Scalp * A Couple of Unreliable Guides * A Steep Descent of Four Miles * Finding a Column of Pack-mules * A Word of Warning * Locating the Indians * Getting Ready for Battle * How a Soldier Feels Before a Battle * Indians Abandon Their Stronghold * " Come on, You White Dogs! ''

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE ~ A LONG AND EXCITING CHASE – THE ENGAGEMENTS THAT FOLLOWED – THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN: Stumbling Upon Fresh Indian Trails * Catching Up With the Hostiles * "See the Enemy ! " * Indian Tactics in Battle * A Brutal Cayuse Chief * The Murder of Chief Egan and His Companions * Searching for Indian Hiding-places * Six Hundred Indian Prisoners * Charging the Indians Across a River * Murder of a Nez Perce Scout * A Remarkable Death Scene * Surprising a Crowd of Indians * Breaking up Indian Camps * A Burly White Ruffian * Efforts to Provoke a Quarrel With Me * Sarah Winnemucca's Criticisms * Death of Mattie

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO ~ AMONG THE SHEEP-EATERS – CAMPAIGNING IN "THE LAND OF THE SEVEN DEVILS": A Visionary Old Dreamer * Some Alarming Reports * Getting Ready to Take the Warpath * A Select Company of Indian Scouts and Sharpshooters * Campaigning in a Fearfully Rough Country * Pursuing a Band of Marauding Horse-thieves * Defeat of Our Troops * Five Days of Terrific Forced Marches * Stumbling Upon an Indian Ambuscade * Completely Surrounded by Indians * Setting Fire to the Grass and Timber * Heroic Efforts of the Troops to Extricate Themselves * A Bannock Spy Who Played Me False * Teaching Captive Indians * Escape of tie Bannock Spy

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE ~ AMONG THE SPOKANES – I AM WELCOMED BY CHIEF LOT – INSTANCES OF INDIAN GRATITUDE: The Spokanes * A Filibustering Indian * Chief Lot * Preparations for a Wedding * An Indian Bride * Listening to Indian Songs * Trying to Build " a Bona-fide White Man's House " * A Queer Piece of Architecture * Religious Service With the Spokanes * Indian Confessions * Shedding Tears of Contrition * A Dissenting Old Indian Woman * "Sit Down, My Girl, Sit Down! " * Chief Lot's Confession * My Indian Escort * Unexpected Appearance of Lot * His Journey of Five Hundred Miles to Bid Me Good-bye * ''You Must Not Go! "

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR ~ PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AMONG THE CROWS – SECRET HELPERS OF OUR FOES: The Crow Reservation * An Ingenious Plot * Meeting a Delegation of Mounted Crows * Fraternizing with Our Indian Scouts * A Crow Escort * A Tribe of Thieves * Finding Bodies of White Men * Marriage Customs of the Crows * Their Dress and Personal Appearance * Religious Belief * Looking Forward to a Coming Messiah * Settlers' Opinion of the Crows * "Thieves, Marauders, and Murderers " * Justly Entitled to Their Reputation * Bad Feeling Between the Sioux and Crows * A Nomadic Tribe * Full of War and Revenge * Incidents of Life Among the Crows * A Reign of Terror * Driving Them from Their Reservation

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE ~ LIFE AMONG THE FLATHEADS – THEIR PECULIARITIES AND CUSTOMS – OUR INDIAN RESERVATION METHODS: Plea of Chief Carlos * On the Lolo Trail * Friendly Emissaries and Good Spies * A Diplomatic Tribe * My Two Flathead Messengers * How They Were Dressed * Method of Flattening the Head * Efforts to Have the Practice Discontinued * A Tribal Peculiarity * How the Flatheads Lived * Their Homes in the Bitter Root Valley * Generally Friendly to the Whites * Old Indian Trails * A Drunken and Terror-inspiring Indian * Settlers' Dread of Indian War * Work Preferable to Starvation * Eagerness to Adopt the White Man's Ways

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX ~ LIFE AND EXPERIENCES AMONG THE WARLIKE SIOUX – SOME DANGEROUS CHARACTERS: My New Field of Duty * The Fierce and Warlike Sioux * Some of Their Influential Chiefs * Interviewing the Brules * Indian Police * Fine Physical Specimens of Indians * The Wife of Lone Wolf * Honoring My Arrival at the Rosebud Agency * Attending the Omaha Dance * A Characteristic Indian Performance * Getting Ready for the Sun Dance * The Country Inhabited by the Sioux * In the Bad Lands * How the Sioux were Fed and Clothed * Their Delight in War and Pillage * The Mischief -making Dreamers * Dangerous Character of Sitting Bull

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN ~ THE MESSIAH CRAZE AMONG THE SIOUX – INDIAN DREAMERS AND THE GHOST DANCE – FRONTIER TRAGEDIES: The Messiah Craze * The Real Message and How it Originated * Urged to Wild Frenzy by the Dreamers * We Will Always be Indians " * White Men's Broken Promises * Bad Influence of Land Boomers and Speculators * " Indians are Coming!” * How Indian Wars Were Often Started * Causes of the Great Sioux Outbreak * Big Foot's Band of Warriors * The Battle of Wounded Knee Creek * Indiscriminate Slaughter of Indians * Death of Lieutenant Casey * The Horrors of Indian War * Another Side of the Story * Murder of Few Tails

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ~ IN THE COUNTRY OF THE CHEYENNES – MASSACRE OF CUSTER AND HIS COMMAND – A FRONTIER TRAGEDY: The Fierce and Warlike Cheyennes * Chief Black Kettle * Brutal Massacre of Southern Cheyennes by White Troops * Retaliating on White Settlers * The Notorious Chief Sitting Bull * Dull Knife, the Cheyenne Chief * The Cheyennes and Sioux Join Forces * Annihilation of General Custer and His Command * A Tragedy that Shocked the Civilized World * General Terry's Account of the Battle * A Desperate and Bloody Fight * Horny Horse's Story of the Battle * Narrative of Chief Red Horse * Chief High Wolfe and His Necklace of Human Fingers * Appearance of Custer's Battlefield * Mutilating the Dead Bodies of Soldiers

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE ~ GENERAL MACKENZIE'S FIGHT WITH THE NORTHERN CHEYENNES – A NIGHT ATTACK ON AN INDIAN CAMP – A STORY OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING: "The Bravest Tribe of Indians on this Continent " * Crazy Horse and His Band of Sioux * Dull Knife and His Fierce Cheyennes * Indian Scouts and Allies * Searching for Camps of Hostile Indians * Sitting Bear and His White Flag * MacKenzie's Search for the Cheyenne Village * Campaigning with the Thermometer Thirty Degrees Below Zero * Night Attack on the Unsuspecting Cheyennes * Death of Lieutenant McKinney * Relics of the Custer Massacre * Unparalleled Sufferings of the Indians * Women and Children Frozen to Death * End of a Bitter War

CHAPTER FORTY ~ SQUAW MEN – HOME LIFE OF WHITE MEN WHO HAVE MARRIED INDIAN WOMEN – INCIDENTS: White Men Who Marry Indian Women * Results of Intermarrying with Indians * Effect of Such Marriages upon Indian Women * An Indian Wife's Efforts to Please Her White Husband * The Squaw Man's Loss of Self-respect * A Shipload of Marriageable White Teachers * Story of an ex-Governor Who Married an Indian Woman * A Cultured Frenchman and His Indian Wife * A Squaw Man's Children * Proud of Their Indian Blood * Indian Half-Breeds * Story of a Government Official Who Married an Indian Women * Living the Life of a Squaw Man

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE ~ CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN INDIANS – THE SIGN LANGUAGE – CEREMONIAL DANCES – A NECKLACE OF HUMAN FINGERS: The Sign Language * Its Origin * How Indians of Different Tribes Converse with Each Other * Curious Methods of Communication * Ceremonial Dances * The Scalp Dance * A Secret Performance * Elaborate Preparations for the Dance * Wands with Dangling Scalps * A Weird Performance * Frenzied Condition of the Dancers * Nervous Excitement of Spectators * Medicine Bags and Totems * A Necklace of Human Fingers * Captain Bourke's Story of its Capture * A Buckskin Bag filled with the Right Hands of Papooses * Gruesome Ornaments made of Human Bones

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ~ CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN INDIANS, CONTINUED – THEIR THEIR STOLIDITY, SECRETIVENESS, AND HUMOR – INDIAN SPIES – CURIOUS STORY TOLD BY A KIOWA: How Indians Conceal their Real Feelings and Intentions * Thievery as a Profession * Attempt of Satanta, a Kiowa Chief, to Kill General Sherman * His Narrow Escape from Death * Satanta's Fate * The Instinct of Revenge * Expertness of Indian Spies * Surpassing the Feats of White Men * Indian Sense of Humor * Laughing at the Queer Looks and Ways of White Men * Making Merry over Whiskers * Bald Heads Versus " Forked Tongues " * Story of the Giant Sinti and the Prairie Dogs * A Good Specimen of Indian Fiction * Boisterous Hilarity of Indians * The Spirit of Gambling * Barbarous Cruelty When Intoxicated

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE ~ CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN INDIANS, CONTINUED – ORATORS AND ORATORY – EXPERT HORSEMANSHIP – SURPRISES AND AMBUSCADES – FUTURE OF OUR INDIANS: An Indian Council Attended by the President of the United States * Characteristic Indian Oratory * Indian Gestures * Peculiarities of their Speeches * Indian Horses and Horsemanship * Method of Breaking and Training Colts * Severe Cruelty to Animals * " Bucking " Ponies * A Lesson Learned from the Indians * Indian and White Riders Compared * Organizing an Attack on a Wagon Train * Averting a Threatened Disaster * Curious Way of " Trying to Please Me " * Looking Back to Early Days * Retrospection * Looking Forward to the Future with Hope and Confidence

CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDE:

Colored Plate I: Iroquois Moccasins * Kiowa Boy’s Buckskin Shirt * Kiowa Girl’s Leather Belt * Cheyenne Girl’s Buckskin Leggings with Moccasins attached * Apache Pouch * Apache Pouch

Colored Plate II: Indian Doll with Wooden Head * Kiowa Doll Warrior mounted on a Doll Horse * Sioux Doll Warrior * Pueblo Female Doll * Cheyenne Male Doll * Prairie Indian Female Doll * Cheyenne Doll

Colored Plate III: War Club with Blade Inserted at the Head * Apache Sling Shot * Cheyenne War Tomahawk * Genuine War Tomahawk * Piegan Tomahawk Pipe * Genuine War Tomahawk * Stone War Club * War Knife Taken from the Rogue River Indians * Stone War Club with braided scalp locks * War club with spiked wooden head * War club with spiked wooden head * Spokane Indian Club * Arapahoe Tomahawk Pipe * War Club with Barbed Spikes

Colored Plate IV: War Shirt of Red Cloud the famous Sioux Chief decorated with an extraordinary number of human scalps * Nez Perce’s Beaded Moccasins * Kiowa-Apache Buckskin Beaded Leggings * Kiowa Boy’s Beaded Moccasins

Colored Plate V: Fancy Beaded Blanket Band * Arapahoe War Shield * Kiowa Warrior’s Disk Strap * Woman’s Beaded Leather Belt with Hanging Strap, ornamented with Silver Disks * Kiowa Ceremonial Headdress * Kiowa Sacred Shield

Colored Plate VI: Kiowa Moccasins * Kiowa Beaded Fire Bag * Cheyenne Toilet Pouch * Santee-Sioux Beaded Garters * Beaded Buckskin Clothes Bag * Ornamented Tobacco Pouch * Beaded Bag * Kiowa Moccasins * Crow Beaded Tobacco Pouch * Sioux Tobacco Pouch * Kiowa Girl’s Perfume Pouch

Colored Plate VII: War Bonnet of Red Flannel Ornamented with Scalp Locks, Eagle Feathers and Buffalo Horns; Pipes, Flutes, etc

Colored Plate VIII: Facsimile of an Original Indian Drawing of a Ceremonial Dance, by Big Back, a Cheyenne

Colored Plate IX: Necklace of Human Fingers, Arrow Heads and Teeth, attached to a Beaded Buckskin Collar * Necklace made of the first joints of human fingers attached to a leather collar Colored Plate X: Indian and White Scalps, Scalping Knives, Sheaths, Bows, Bow Case and Quiver, Arrows, etc: Medicine Arrow * Scalping Knive Sheath * Scalp of a Blackfoot Indian * Sioux Buckskin Quiver and Bow Case * Scalping Knife Sheath * Cheyenne Scalp * Sioux Bow * Scalping Knife * White Man’s Scalp with Comb Attached * An Indian Cap or Headdress * Scalping Knives * Cartridge Belt, Scalping Knife and Sheath * War and Hunting Arrows * Rawhide Whip or Quirt * Scalping Knife Sheath

OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDE: An Indian artist at work in his lodge painting a buffalo robe * On the March – United States Cavalry crossing the Great Plains * Comanche, Kiowa and Navajo Children * Indians returning to their camps from a fall Buffalo Hunt * Pursued – A Band of Indians chasing a Pony Express rider * Indian method of attacking overland wagons * Dismounted United States Cavalry repulsing Mounted Warriors * United States Troops and Scouts surprising a body of Indians * United States troopers and scouts surprising a body of Indians * Notorious Indian raiders and freebooters * Group of Kootenai Indians and their camp, Idaho * Warriors charging around the Sun Pole – A scene at the Great Sun Dance * The Battlefield of Wounded Knee, showing Dead Warriors as they fell * The battlefield of Wounded Knee after the blizzard, three days after the fight, showing Indian women and children just as they fell * Burial of Indians killed in the Battle of Wounded Knee * Facsimile of a drawing by Red Horse, a Sioux, showing the Sioux fighting Custer’s battalion in the Battle of the Little Big Horn * The Knoll on the Battlefield where General Custer and his men fell and were buried * Soldiers’ Cemetery on Custer’s Battlefield * Noted Cheyenne Indians in their wild state * Communication by signs * The Giant Sinti fooling the prairie dogs * The Lame Coyote fooling the Giant Sinti * An Indian Horse Race

Remember folks, this is a 1907 original. This book is 117 years old.

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