Kaleidoscopic Lives

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Excerpt from Kaleidoscopic Lives: A Companion Book to Frontier and Indian Life Although complete in itself, yet as its sub-title indicates, this little book is but a continuation of and companion to "Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri and Great Plains" a collection of historical incidents, reminiscences and personal recollections of the free wild life in the regions named, a work put forth by the author many years ago, and now running to the close of its third edition. This companion volume of sketches though bordering romance in the manner of presentation of some of the characters and of their doings as herein chronicled, are - as were those of the preceding book - but a plain record of the actual. The actors in the cast of these stirring dramas were of both the red and white race, from diverse tribes and nationalities. They were of those who make their own ideal as to character with more originality and less of the imitative which render companionable the greater mass of the human kind. I write of scenes that cannot be re-enacted and will never be duplicated for the conditions do not now exist that brought them forth. I write of an individualism that could only have sprang from such conditions and surroundings, and with such disappearance, all have now passed or are passing on with time's eternal transit, leaving but imperfect records behind to mark their time and stage of action. 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.