Excerpt from An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography: Being a Catalogue of Books, Relating to the History, Antiquities, Languages, Customs, Religion, Wars, Literature, and Origin of the American Indians, in the Library of Thomas W. Field Books in which any distinct portion, chapter, or appendix claimed by its heading, or table of contents to be devoted to that subject. Works containing engravings, illustrative of the manners and peculiarities of the aborigines, when derived from actual observation. All treatises, or essays, upon their origin, or the pre-columbian discovery of America, as affecting the source of its population. Those works of fiction or poetry founded on Indian life, to which were appended historical notes, incidents of personal experience, or traditions and legends, of the Indians. All works containing grammatical analyses, or vocabularies of their language, as well as translations, into or from them, would of course form a part of the collection. In a limited number of cases, marked with a star books not actually in the author's collection have been admitted to the cata logue. This exceptional adoption has been made to complete the bibliographical history of those series of works of which the library contained only a portion, and thus afford the collector a full view of such treatises as complete any section of the subject. 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.