Excerpt from Life Among the American Indians: Fifty Years on the Trial, a True Story of Western Life My object has been merely to give an unvarnished and circumstantial account of the existing events which have occurred to an individual whose position was no better than -that of a social outcast, a position he had sought of his own free will, not a position forced upon him by the violation of any of the laws of his country. In giving expression, or what may be better termed local colour, to most of the incidents enumerated, I have adopted, as far as possible, my subject's own phraseology. Any attempt of mine to convert it into pure English, and thus deprive it of its idiosyncrasy, would only have resulted in a dire failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.