FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS FAMOUS LEADERS SERIES BY CHARLES H. L. JOHNSTON Each one volume, large 12mo, illustrated, $1.50 [Illustration] FAMOUS CAVALRY LEADERS FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS FAMOUS SCOUTS FAMOUS PRIVATEERSMEN [Illustration] L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. [Illustration] THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTED BY PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID [Illustration: SITTING BULL.] (_See page 425_) FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS Their battles, treaties, sieges, and struggles with the whites for the possession of America By CHARLES H. L. JOHNSTON Author of "Famous Cavalry Leaders," etc. Illustrated [Illustration] BOSTON. L. C. PAGE & COMPANY. PUBLISHERS _Copyright, 1909_ BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) _All rights reserved_ First Impression, November, 1909 Second Impression, September, 1910 Third Impression, September, 1911 Printed by THE COLONIAL PRESS: C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A. _Dedicated_ =To All Schoolboys and Young Men= INTRODUCTORY Upon a beautiful day in July, 1492, two brown-skinned Spaniards lay upon the wharf that jutted far out into the waters of the blue Mediterranean Ocean at Palos, Spain, and looked meditatively in the direction of the far West. From their dress it could be easily seen that they were sailors, and from their conversation it was only too evident that they were speculating upon questions that then stirred the thoughts of many intelligent seafarers.