My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia The letters from the Indian country which are contained in the first volume were not written with a view to permanent publication, but for the exacting and imperious necessities of American newspapers, principally for the Missouri Democrat of St. Louis, and a New York paper. Previous to the period at which they begin, I had been only an Occasional Descriptist of battle scenes and important public events, but in my twenty-fifth year I was promoted to the proud position of a Special Correspondent, with the very large commission to inform the public regarding all matters of general interest affecting the Indians and the great Western plains. The incidents to which the letters relate occurred in 1867, during two Indian campaigns. When General Hancock's expedition first set out from the Missouri River, it was generally expected that there would be a good deal of fighting, but the General's disposition and management of the Indian chiefs were such that he had only to conduct a series of tactical marches through the red men's domains. 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.