Excerpt from Personal Experiences Among Our North American Indians: From 1867 to 1885 Veterans of the regular army, who served in the Indian wars, are entitled to every honor which a grateful nation can bestow upon its heroes. The veterans who faced the dangers of Indian warfare, who made the weary dangerous march, crossing the plains, the mountains, and desert regions, who have endured the horrors of thirst and hunger, and un told suffering in their cowon duties as soldiers, who have endured the cold of Montana and the heat of Arizona, who have suffered all sorts of privations and discomforts in an enemy's country, and who have held in check, often against great odds, and fought battles with savages, wherel almost super human courage was required to avert absolute de struction, and where surrender could never be yielded without the sure sequence of being reserved for the indescribable horrors of Indian tortures surely such warriors are peers of the soldiers in any country, and are worthy of the tribute and friendship of all veterans. No true soldier or worthycitizen would hesitate for an instant to yield homage to the brave and true, who at such sacrifices and terrible risks Opened up the great western lands to settlements for millions. Cities and towns have sprung up where once roamed their mighty, cruel, but defeated Indian enemies. In Indian warfare there is no rear. All are equally exposed to danger. The real veteran does not and cannot approve of the neglect of any veteran soldier. The real soldier is ready to give his sympathy generously, for the jus tice of brave men. Our American Indian war scouts, were indeed a brave and daring lot; and seemed to be without fear of danger or of death - although they knew both in the worst possible form. The tomahawk, the scalping knife and the fright ful tortures of devilish Indian cruelty were much more to be dreaded than the engines of destruction usually employed in war. 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.