tion>Bertram Mitford
Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild West
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066220747
Table of Contents
Preface.
An impression prevails in this country that for many years past the Red men of the American Continent have represented a subdued and generally deteriorated race. No idea can be more erroneous. Debased, to a certain extent, they may have become, thanks to drink and other “blessings” of civilisation; but that the warrior-spirit, imbuing at any rate the more powerful tribes, is crushed, or that a semi-civilising process has availed to render them other than formidable and dangerous foes, let the stirring annals of Western frontier colonisation for the last half-century in general, and the Sioux rising of barely a year ago in particular, speak for themselves.
This work is a story—not a history. Where matters historical have been handled at all the Author has striven to touch
