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WIGWAM AND WAR-PATH;
OR THE
ROYAL CHIEF IN CHAINS.
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, AND ELEVEN OTHER
SPIRITED AND LIFE-LIKE ENGRAVINGS,
OF ACTUAL SCENES FROM MODOC INDIAN LIFE, AS
WITNESSED BY THE AUTHOR.
SECOND AND REVISED EDITION.
JOHN P. DALE AND COMPANY,
27 Boylston Street.
1875.
A. B. MEACHAM,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL,
33 Arch Street, Boston.
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PREFACE.
The Hon. A. B. Meacham has committed to me the difficult and delicate, yetdelightful task of revising the manuscript and arranging the table ofcontents 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, thesingularly eloquent and fascinating style of the gifted author. Thechanges which I have made have been, for the most part, quiteimmaterial—no more nor greater than would be required in the manuscriptof writers commonly called “learned.” In no case have I attempted (for theattempt would have been vain) to give shape and tone to the writer’sthoughts. His mind was so full, both of the comedy and the tragedy of histhrilling narrative, that it has flowed on like a mighty torrent, biddingdefiance to any attempt either to direct or control.
None, it seems to me, can peruse the work without being charmed with thelove of justi