Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 / 2008-07-26 00:00:00

EBOOK THIRTY YEARS WITH THE INDIAN TRIBES ***


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[Illustration: Engraved by A.B. Walter Philad.]
PERSONAL MEMOIRS
OF A
RESIDENCE OF THIRTY YEARS
WITH THE
INDIAN TRIBES
ON THE
AMERICAN FRONTIERS:
WITH BRIEF
NOTICES OF PASSING EVENTS, FACTS, AND OPINIONS,
A.D. 1812 TO A.D. 1842.
BY HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

1851.


TO
ALEXANDER B. JOHNSON, ESQ.
OF UTICA.
My dear sir:--I feel impelled to place your name before these sheets,
from a natural impulse. It is many years since I accompanied you to the
Genesee country, which was, at that time, a favorite theatre of
enterprise, and called the "Garden of the West." This step, eventually,
led me to make deeper and more adventurous inroads into the American
wilderness.
If I am not mistaken, you will peruse these brief memoranda of my
exploratory journeys and residence in the wide area of the west, and
among barbarous tribes, in a spirit of appreciation, and with a lively
sense of that providential care, in human affairs, that equally shields
the traveler amidst the vicissitudes of the forest, and the citizen at
his fireside.
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