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180 game. ‘They, together with the periods I have already covered, constitute our entire colonial history, broadly speaking. RECEIVE many letters from men who know a sight more than I’ll ever know, declaring they’ve been to school again in my yarns and begin to realize what it, the dry-rot of their school-days, really means to us today. That’s the great fault with our system of teaching history—they memo- rize some dates and are permitted to believe the series of wars and migratory movements com- prise something that is all ended. And of course the influence of those first cabins in the Shenan- doah valley will never end. They are not encour- aged to realize how the boys of 1700-1810 always associated a “frontier” with the tomahawk and the torch; that those conditions were ingrained in the youngster’s life as are electric lights and the movies in the life of today. What a mess I’m writing! But when it comes to- the fellers who did the rough work in the old days V’m a nut.—PENDEXTER. Here is the list: Some Books on Early Fur-Trade Bryce. Remarkable History of the Hudson Bay Company;* Bonneville, Benj. L. E. (ed. by Wash- ington Irving) The Rocky Mountains;* Bigelow. Life of J. C. Frémont (also Frémont’s own Mem- oirs);* Chittenden, Hiram Martin. American Fur Trade in the Far West;* Chittenden. Early Steam- boat Navigation of Missouri River;* Chittenden and Richardson. Life, Letters and Travels of Father De Smet;* Dodge, Gen. G. M. Sketch of Jim Bridger;* Dunbar, Seymour. History of Travel in America;* Ellis, G. E. Hudson Bay Company;* Henry, Alexander. His Journal, of fur trade (ed. by Elliott Coues);* Irving, Washing- ton. Astoria;* Inman and Cody. “The Old Salt Lake Trail;”* VWarpenteur, Charles. Forty Years in the Fur Trade (ed. by Coues);* Leonard, Zenas, Narrative of Zenas Leonard;* Laut, Agnes. Story of the Trapper;* Morice. History of Northern British Columbia;* McKenzie, Alexander, Voy- ages From Montreal, etc.;5* McCarthy, J. History of Our Own Times (ch. 55, v. 4);* Peters, D. C. Pioneer Days and Frontier Adventure (Life of Kit Carson);* Ross, Alexander. Fur Hunters of the Far West;* Willson. The Great Company.* On the Early Santa Fe Trade Gregg, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies;* In- man. The Old Santa Fé Trail.* Some Books on Indians—{General] Parkman. Conspiracy of Pontiac;* Parkman. The Oregon Trail;* Morgan, Lewis. Houses and Houselife of American Aborigines;* Schoolcraft. Thirty Years with Indian Tribes;* Manypenny, Geo. Our Indian Wards;* Dodge, Col. Richard I. Our Wild Indians;* Custer, Gen. My Life on the Plains;* Drake, Francis S. Indian History for Young Folks;* Gallatin, Albert Synopsis of Indian Tribes;* Jackson, Mrs. Helen Hunt. A Century of Dishonor;* Adair, James. History of American Indians (Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Carolinas, Virginia) ;* Charlevoix, Father. Letters to. Duchesse Lesdiguieres, 1720-22;* Brooks, Elbridge S. Story of the American Indian;* Geo. A... Adventure Catlin, Geo. Illustrations and Letters (very pro- Indian);* Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Native Races of the Pacific States (5 vols.);* Larned’s History Ready Reference, Vol. I, article, ““American Abo- rigines.’’* By Tribes and” Regions Bureau American Ethnology annual reports, such as: <>. First report: Wyandot Government, by J. W. Powell; Mortuary Customs of North American Indians, by H. C. Yarrow. Second report: Myths of the Iroquois, by Erminnie A. Smith; Zuni Fe- liches, by F. H. Cushing. Sixth report: Osage Traditions, by J. Owen Dorsey. Ninth report: Medicine Men of the Apache, by John G. Bourke; Fourteenth report: Ghost Dance Religion and Sioux Outbreak of 1890, by James Mooney. Fif- teenth report: The Siouan Indians, by W. J. McGee (a preliminary sketch). Seventeenth report: Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians, by Mooney. Nineteenth report: Myths of the Cherokee; by Mooney.* Beauchamp,W.M. The Iroquois Trail (including Cusick’s sketches of ancient history of the Six Nations);* Beckworth, James P. (Chief of Crows)... Life and Adventures of;* Stone, William L. Life of Red Jacket—Life of Joseph Brant;* Morgan, Lewis H. League of the Iroquois;* Riggs, Rev. Dr. Stephen R. Forty Years With the Sioux;* Grinnell, Geo. Bird. The Fighting Cheyennes—Pawnee Hero Stories—Black- foot Lodge Tales;* Carrington. Ab-sa-Ra-Ka Home of the Crows;* Copway, Geo. (Kah-Ge-Ga- Bowh). History of Ojibway Nation;* Clarke, Peter D. History of the Wyandots;* Garrard, Lewis H. Wah-to-yaz, and The Taos Trail;* Benson, Henry C. Life Among the Choctaw Indians;* Lee, Nel- son. Three Years Among the Comanches;* Black- bird, Andrew J. (Mack-aw-De-Nessy). History of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians;* Hurt, Dr. Gar- land. Indians of Utah;* Miller, Joaquin. Un- written History—Life Among the Modocs;* Lewis and Clarke, 1893 edition, edited by Dr. Coues;* Cortez, José. History of Apache Nation (Pacific Ry. reports, Vol. III);* Eastman, Charles. Indian Boyhood;* Dorsey, G. A. Artkara Traditions (pub. 1903 by Carnegie Institution);* Dorsey and Kroe- ber. Traditions of the Arapaho (pub. 1903 Field Columb. Mus.). And here is a letter that followed: Norway, Maine. Dear Hoffman: Concerning the bibliography: You can have as long a list as you care for. What I submitted will hold the beginner for some time. The man who is already delving into the subject will have had an opportunity to add to his own lists by noting the authorities cited. I had thought to submit later a list dealing with our develop- ment from 1700 to 1800, leaving out Revolutionary War histories and stressing various border chroni- cles, annals, etc., showing the every-day life of the people at different periods, what they were up against and how their homely tribulations spurred them on to cross mountains, make homes and un- wittingly supply the conditional cause for some epoch. If you'd go for to admire to have more, say so. And I’ll mark them “add.” I have carbons of what I sent in. If you care for the Colonial data, suggested above, say as much, and I’ll shoot DOO (C@