INDIAN MAIDEN.
THE
BOYS’ BOOK
OF
INDIAN
Battles and Adventures.
New York:
JAMES MILLER.
THE
BOYS’ BOOK
OF INDIAN
Battles and Adventures,
WITH ANECDOTES ABOUT THEM.
ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN ENGRAVINGS
BY THE AUTHOR OF “EVENINGS IN BOSTON,” “RAMON
THE ROVER OF CUBA,” ETC.
New York:
JAMES MILLER, 522 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.LXVI.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
JAMES MILLER,
in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New York.
The character of the aboriginal inhabitantsof the western continent is in many respectsremarkable and striking. It possesses greatinterest for the student of history as well as theobserver of human nature. Still this characterhas never been properly exhibited in a connectedview. One is obliged to detect the traits in detachedincidents and scattered descriptions; andthus by a sort of inductive process to determinethe real disposition, powers and capabilities ofthe North American Savage. It is for thepurpose of bringing the materials of this inductiveprocess within the compass of a singlevolume of moderate size that these “Anecdotes”have been collected. They present the savagein all his various aspects and relations, in allcircumstances of sorrow and joy, danger, difficultyand triumph. The incidents here narrated,[vi]while they exhibit the most prominent traits ofthe Indian character, also bring into view themost striking passages of our national historyin its connection with the aborigines, and thusserve a double purpose as an exercise in historicalas well as philosophical study. Its chiefobject is utility. Its particular design is tosubserve the great cause of national education.
New York, Oct. 1st, 1860.
INDIAN HONESTY.
In the character of the Indians of NorthAmerica there are many traits which their whiteneighbours would do well to imitate. Amongthese, strict honesty is one. Mr. Catlin givesthe credit of this virtue to all the wild tribeswhich he visited, not corrupted by intercourse