Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 40938-h.htm or 40938-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40938/40938-h/40938-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40938/40938-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/warpathwigwam00meacrich Transcriber's note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as shown in the TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE at the end of the text. To preserve the alignment of tables and headers, this etext presumes a mono-spaced font on the user's device such as Courier New. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration] WIGWAM AND WAR-PATH; OR THE ROYAL CHIEF IN CHAINS. by HON. A. B. MEACHAM, Ex-Superintendent of Indian Affairs and Chairman of the Late Modoc Peace Commission. Illustrated by Portraits of The Author, Gen. Canby, Dr. Thomas, Capt. Jack, Schonchin, Scar-Faced Charley, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Tobey and Riddle, Eleven Other Spirited and Life-Like Engravings, of Actual Scenes from Modoc Indian Life, as Witnessed by the Author. SECOND AND REVISED EDITION. Boston: John P. Dale and Company, 27 Boylston Street. 1875. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1875, by A. B. Meacham, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 33 Arch Street, Boston. PREFACE. The Hon. A. B. Meacham has committed to me the difficult and delicate, yet delightful task of revising the manuscript and arranging the table of contents of the present work. I have endeavored to review every page as an impartial critic, and have, as far as possible, retained, in all its simplicity and beauty, the singularly eloquent and fascinating style of the gifted author. The changes which I have made have been, for the most part, quite immaterial——no more nor greater than would be required in the manuscript of writers commonly called “learned.” In no case have I attempted (for the attempt would have been vain) to give shape and tone to the writer’s thoughts. His mind was so full, both of the comedy and the tragedy of his thrilling narrative, that it has flowed on like a mighty torrent, bidding defiance to any attempt either to direct or control. None, it seems to me, can peruse the work without being charmed with the love of justice and the fidelity to truth which pervade its every page, as well as the manly courage with which the writer arraigns _Power_ for the crime of crushing _Weakness_——holding our Government to an awful accountability for the delays, the ignorance, the fickleness and treachery of its subordinates in dealing with a people whose very religion prompts them to wreak vengeance for wrongs done them, even on the innocent.