Hunting-Grounds of the Great West

Abstract

MR. WILLIAM BLACKMORE, well known to anthropologists in connection with the Blackmore Museum at Salisbury, hunted buffalo on the great plains of the Far West with Col. Dodge. The American colonel's camp-fire stories seemed to his English companion well worth preserving, and thus the present volume came to be written, and dedicated to Mr. Blackmore, who has prefaced it with an introduction on the Indian tribes of North America and the causes of their extinction. No doubt Mr. Blackmore was right in encouraging lhis friend to write his book, which contains much curious information not got up out of other books, but drawn direct from life in the Indian country, and told well in barrack-room fashion. The bold picturesque illustrations by Griset suit the contents well, and the volume in its red and gold binding might have been recommended as a gift-book, had the author had the discretion and good taste to exclude certain stories as to the relations of the sexes among Indian tribes, as well as several pages of revolting details respecting the fate of those who fall as captives into the hands of such tribes as the Comanches, which ought not to have found a place in it.

The Hunting-Grounds of the Great West, a Description of the Plains, Game, and Indians of the Great North-American Desert.

By Richard Irving Dodge, U.S.A. With an Introduction by William Blackmore. (London: Chatto and Windus.)