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The boy's book about Indians : being what I saw and heard for three years on the plains / by Rev. Edmund B. Tuttle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuttle, Edmund B. (Edmund Bostwick), 1815-1881, author.
- Series:
- Indigenous Peoples of North America.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates) : portrait.
- Other Title:
- Boy's book about Indians
- Place of Publication:
- J.B. Lippincott & Co.
- Contents:
- Where did the Indians come from?
- Despoiling the grave of an old Onondaga chief
- The fidelity of an Indian chief
- Big Thunder : a Winnebago chief
- Indian tradition : the deluge
- Tribes on the plains
- The author of a "Medicine-man"
- The Sioux sun dance : scenes on the plains of young warriors exhibiting fortitude and bravery in torturing pains : a horrible scene
- Julesburg
- A brave boy and some Indians
- An Indian meal
- Shall the Indians be exterminated?
- Indians don't believe half they hear
- Army officers
- What shall be done?
- A good joke by Little Raven
- How the Indian is cheated
- Burial of a chief's daughter
- An Indian raid on Sidney Station, Union Pacific Railroad
- Why do Indians scalp their enemies
- Indian boy's education
- Making presents
- Indians making signals
- Merciful Indians
- Scenes at North Platte
- Across the plains
- Why does not the Indian meddle with the telegraph?
- Plum Creek massacre
- Pawnee Indians : Yellow Sun and Blue Hawk
- A trip to Fort Laramie
- Moss agates
- A young brave
- The head chief : Red Cloud
- Red Cloud's journey
- Phil. Kearney massacre
- Perilous adventure : pursuit of a horse-thief
- Hanging horse-thieves
- The Indian fight at Sweetwater Mines
- Indian attack on the stage-coach going to Denver : Rev. Mr. Fuller's account of two attempts on his life
- Chaplain White says there's a time to pray and a time to fight
- Legend of "Crazy Woman's Fork"
- Mauvaises Terres or Bad Lands, Dakota
- Natural history : animals on the plains
- A night scene
- The mission-house
- Indian language, counting, etc.
- Indians attack Lieutenant W. Dougherty : fight between Fort Fetterman and Reno
- Speech of "White Shield," head chief of the Arickarees
- Indian trading
- Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and their friends in Washington.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
- OCLC:
- 671598405
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