Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recent Indian Wars, Under the Lead of Sitting Bull, and Other Chiefs: With a Full Account of the Messiah Craze, and Ghost Dances
Therefore, the west-mississippi tribes soon came into a prominence which even overshadow ed that which the East - Mississippi tribes had oc cupied in history. The constant opening of new lands by the whites, the discovery of gold in Cal ifornia, the development of agriculture and min ing in various directions, all of the forces of our civilization which constantly brought the white man into contact with the western natives, just as constantly produced clashes of the two races. The consequences have been that pioneering has always been fraught with its old time dangers, and that the white man has been compelled to lit erally fight his way'to the Pacific.
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