THE STORY OF THE WEST SERIES. 



Edited by RIPLEY HITCHCOCK. 



Each, illustrated, J2mo, cloth, $1.50. 



" It would be difficult to speak in too high praise of the volumes that have thus far appeared 

 in The Story of the West Series." — Chicago Tributie. 



" The purpose of this series is excellent. Already many of the picturesque and stirring 

 features of Western life have been completely lost, and the attempt to revive them with the 

 help of the imagination has not been an unqualified success. The editor's work is therefore 

 highly commendable, and ought to meet with success." — Philadelphia Press. 



" The series is telling in enduring form the story of the pioneer period, and of the elements 

 and personalities which made it the unique thing it was." — Boston Herald. 



The Story of the Cowboy. %* 



By E. HOUGH, author of " The Singing Mouse Stories," etc. 

 Illustrated by William L. Wells and C. M. Russell. 



" Mr. Hough is to be thanked for having written so excellent a boo!:. 

 The cowboy story, as this author has told it, will be the cowboy's fitting 

 eulogy. This volume will be consulted in years to come as an authority 

 on past conditions of the far West. For fine literary work the author is 

 to be highly complimented. Here, certainly, we have a choice piece of 

 writing." — A'ezv York Times. 



" Mr. Hough writes whereof he knows. The sympathetic style in 

 which he handles his subject arises out of close association and practical experience in the cow- 

 boy's saddle. His account of the rude and stirring life of other days upon the Western plains 

 therefore has all the graphic vigor of an eyewitness and expert cow-puncher. Yet to this he 

 adds a polished and diversified literary style such as one would scarcely expect to find coupled 

 with his other qualifications. The result is a thoroughly interesting and valuable volume. 

 There is just enough of the poetic touch in Mr. Hough's treatment to preserve the romantic 

 pcturesqueness of the vanishing figure he portrays. ... At once history and literature, with the 

 added merit of being as interesting as the best of fiction." — Chicago Tribune. 



The Story of the Mine, *m 



As illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada. 

 By CHARLES HOWARD SHINN. 



" The author has written a book not alone full of information, 

 but replete with the true romance of the American mine." — New 

 York Times. 



" Mr. Shinn's volume is a fairly complete picture of the mining 

 industries of the Pacific States, and should be read by every one 

 who desires an accurate idea of this phase of Western history. "— Brooklyn Eagle. 



" The book will appeal to readers who have seen something of the regions or the life it so 

 vividly portrays, as well as to those who seek clear information concerning the most important 

 factor in the development of the western half of the great American continent."— Chicago Dial. 



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The Story of the Indian* <j* 



By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, author of "Pawnee 

 Hero Stories," " Blackfoot Lodge Tales," etc. 

 "Only an author qualified by personal experience could offer us 

 a profitable study of a race so alien from our own as is the Indian 

 in thought, feeling, and culture. Only long association with In- 

 dians can enable, a white man measurably to comprehend their 

 thoughts and enter into their feelings. Such association has been 

 Mr. Grinnell's." — New York San. 



" It must not be supposed that the volume is one for scholars and 

 libraries of reference. It is far more than that. While it is a true 

 story, yet it is a story none the less abounding in picturesque descrip- 

 tion and charming anecdote. We regard it as a valuable contribu- 

 tion to American literature."— New York Mail and Express. 



" Full of information, and written in a style which appeals to 

 the average reader." — New York Herald. 

 "A valuable study of Indian life and character. ... An attractive book, in large part one 

 which Indians themselves might have written." — New York Tribune. 



"The author is a master of a peculiarly clear and graphic style, and his book has a most 

 fascinating interest. It gives to its readers an understanding of a much misunderstood race." 

 — Boston Advertiser. . 



