been a continuous resident here since 1867, though be- 
ing here even before that date. He isa charming writer, 
and has the faculty of close observation usually well cul- 
tivated as is usual with all frontiersmen. The third 
edition of his work Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life 
on the Upper Missouri and Great Plains has just ap- 
peared; the first appearing in 1889 and the second in 
1895. The present edition contains much new matter. 
The work embraces over 300 pages and is embellished 
with good illustrations. The book is valuable from a 
historical standpoint as it contains many events of inter- 
est, and the Indian legends are graphically told. The 
work is one that will interest every reader.”—Fargo 
(N. D.) Forum. 
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“Frontier and Indian Life, Joseph Henry Taylor, 
Author and Publisher, Washburn, N. D., is a series of 
sketches drawn from the author’s own experience of 
over thirty years on the Indian frontier. As an enlisted 
soldier, a hunter and trapper, a woodsman and a journ- 
alist, he has gained a personal knowledge of his subject 
from both the red and the white man’s standpoint that 
makes his stories particularly interesting. 
The volume opens with the story of Inkpaduta and 
the Spirit Lake massacre, showing the causes which led 
to the first Sioux outbreak of history; and later tells of 
the revenge of Inkpaduta’s sons on the battlefield of the 
Little Big Horn, and gives Sitting Bull’s denial of the 
part usually ascribed to him in that unhappy affair. 
Next comes an incident in which a brave little band 
of Indians rather than be taken by the foe, marched 
deliberately into an ice hole on the river, and one by one 
passed forever out of sight into the current beneath. 
Then comes the pathetic story of “Bummer Dan,” a 
white man who found and lost a fortune in Colorado’s 
early mining days, and then again the legend of The 
Scalpless Warrior and his Daughter, a tale in which his- 
tory, romance and folklore are admirably blended. 
The Great Plains of 1864, Fort Berthold in 1869, 
Early days around Fort Buford, With a Gros Ventre 
War Party, Bull-boating through the Sioux country, and 
