Indians attack Lieutenant W. Dougherty--Fight between Forts Fetterman and Reno 161 Speech of "White Shield," Head Chief of the Arickarees 162 Indian Trading 164 Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and their Friends in Washington 167 Conclusion 201 Lord's Prayer in Sioux Language 205 Apostles' Creed 206 Distances 206 ILLUSTRATIONS The Death of Johnson in Colorado _frontispiece_ FOLLOWING PAGE 102 Issac H. Tuttle Indian Boys Indian Burial Bishop Clarkson Group of Converted Indians Spotted Tail and his Son MAP Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska xii-xiii [Illustration: Detail from an 1877 map showing principal areas of Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska mentioned by Tuttle. Ft. D. A. Russell was located near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Original by S. Augustus Mitchell (1792-1868), 1" = 55 mi. Courtesy Jerome A. Greene.] INTRODUCTION The interest which boys are taking in all that relates to our Indian tribes, and the greediness they manifest in devouring the sensational stories published so cheaply, filling their imaginations with stories of wild Indian life on the plains and borders, without regard to their truthfulness, cannot but be harmful; and therefore the writer, after three years' experience on the plains, feels desirous of giving youthful minds a right direction, in a true history of the red men of our forests. Thus can they teach their children, in time to come, what kind of races have peopled this continent; especially before civilization had marked them for destruction, and their hunting-grounds for our possession. The RIGHTS and WRONGS of the Indians should be told fairly, in order that justice may be done to such as have befriended the white men who have met the Indians in pioneer life, and been befriended often by the savage, since the Mayflower landed her pilgrims on these shores some two hundred and fifty years ago. The writer proposes now only a history of Indians since he began to know the "Six Nations" in Western New York, about forty years ago. Since then, these have dwindled down to a handful, and do not now exist in their separate tribal relations, but mixed in with others, far away from the beautiful lakes they once inhabited. WHERE DID THE INDIANS COME FROM? The origin of the native American Indian has puzzled the wisest heads. The most plausible theory seems to be that they are one of the lost tribes of Israel; that they crossed a narrow frith from the confines of Asia, and that their traditions, it is said, go far to prove it.