Excerpt from Stories of Red Men The word Indian is a frequent perplexity to young readers, and not to the young only. For even at the present day, when we hear that such an event has occurred to the Indians, or that there is going to be another Indian war, our ideas are apt to fly to the country properly called India, and not to America and the savage tribes there. India formerly meant nearly all that was known of Southern Asia and the islands near the coast. From early times the wealth of the Indies formed the merchandise of European nations; and, as I shall explain by-and-by, the Western Indies received that name from a mis take that connected them with the East. Against these American Indians, or Red Men, the white races have had to fight for the possession of the country. Three hundred years ago millions of them were spread over North and South America; but those that remain have been driven farther and farther across the continent to the mountains and valleys of the Far West, where, alas Indian wars are still of frequent occurrence. 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.