Produced by D. Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) RED MEN AND WHITE BY OWEN WISTER ILLUSTRATED BY FREDERIC REMINGTON NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _Printed in the United States of America._ [Illustration: SPECIMEN JONES (Page 36)] TO S. B. W. AND O. J. W. FROM THEIR SON PREFACE These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a little through the nearer tie of having here and there a character in common. Thus they resemble faintly the separate parts of a whole, and gain, perhaps, something of the invaluable weight of length; and they have been received by my closest friends with suspicion. Many sorts of Americans live in America; and the Atlantic American, it is to be feared, often has a cautious and conventional imagination. In his routine he has lived unaware of the violent and romantic era in eruption upon his soil. Only the elk-hunter has at times returned with tales at which the other Atlantic Americans have deported themselves politely; and similarly, but for the assurances of Western readers, I should have come to doubt the truth of my own impressions. All this is most natural.