many others of similiar nature gives glimpses of Indian 
life and thought in the early days that are both interest- 
ing and valuable. Lonesome Charley, Buckskin Joe 
and others are western character sketches of a type now 
rapidly passing away. 
Altogether the collection is unique, and bears an in- 
terest not only for the Indian scholar but for the general 
reader who likes an occassional dip into the unusual.” — 
Southern (Va.) Workman. 
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co. 
“It cannot be said of Mr. Taylor, as of so many of 
the writers, who take up space in even the best of our 
magazines, that he has rushed into print when he had 
no story to tell. 
Thirty years ago, when all Dakota was one vast batile 
ground for the “blood-thursty Sioux,” the “Fost-eared 
Assinnaboines,” “Blackleg Anathaways,” “painted Gros 
Ventres” “hidden faced Sisseton” and other savage 
tribes, all engaged in a war of extermination, one tribe 
against another and all against the buffalo and the pale 
face, Mr. Taylor was a hunter and trapper at Painted 
Woods on the Missouri. Strange indeed, if any man 
who had passed so many years in this wild life should 
not have a tale to tell that were worth reading and Mr. 
Taylor had rare ability as well as opportunity for collect- 
ing material for his book. 
He has set out in a natural and modest way many 
dramatic incidents in his own life and in the lives of those 
with whom he was brought in contact. Tales are told 
of battles fought and friendships made; of desperate 
struggles with cold and hunger in the terrible blizzard, 
of Indian love and vengence from which neither age 
nor infancy, womanhood nor weakness could hope for 
pity. 
Yet this man, who surely knows them well, is no 
enemy of the Indians and his book is no mere iale but 
a study of these people. 
A ‘‘Fated War Party’’ is the story of a tribe, ‘‘Band 
of Canoes’’ who made their home in our own Mouse 
river valley. The scenes of many of the tales are fam- 
iliar to us and since reading Mr. Taylor’s book, they 
