Click "free sample" to read the whole book. No need to purchase. Excerpt from Red Men and White These eight stories are made from our West ern Frontier as it was in a past as near as yester day and almost as by-gone as the Revolution so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a lit lle through the nearer tie of having here and {here a character in common. Thus they resem ble faintly the separate parts of a whole, and gain, perhaps, something of the invaluable weight of length: and they have been received by my closest friends with suspicion. Many sorts of Americans live in America; and the Atlantic American, it is to be feared, often has a cautious and conventional imagination. In his routine he has lived unaware of jhe violent and romantic era in eruption upon his soil. Only the elk-hunter has at times returned with tales at which the other Atlantic Americans have de ported themselves politely; and similarly, but for the assurances of Western readers, I should have come to doubt the truth of my own impres sions. All this is most natural....