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the Umatilla Reservation, the Black feet Reservation 

 and Crow Agency, Montana, and elsewhere who have 

 revealed to me some of the secrets of their people. And 

 not least, though last, to George Palmer Putnam, 

 of G. P. Putnam's Sons, publisher and writer, be- 

 cause of his faith in the idea of the book and its author, 

 for his unusual personal encouragement and practical 

 cooperation and particularly for his unpublishery, un- 

 arm-chairy imagination, all of which is so essential to 

 book success. 



Let 'er Buck ! 



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