Excerpt from The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City The volume from which this reference comes appeared in 1864, when he may be said to have regained a Parisian consciousness of the value of wild adventure, and when he had become artistically and dramatically retrospective. A year or two before, his chief English translator, who seems to have had some private knowledge of his career (very probably supplied by himself) had written in brief an appreciation, which is just what he himself would have desired it to be. If the terms are rather large, and the prairie is not definitely located, it is in essence, we believe, a fair statement of the case. He was the adopted son, according to this freely coloured miniature, Of one of the most powerful Indian tribes. With this tribe he lived for more than fifteen years in the heart of the prairie, sharing their dangers and their combats, and accompanying them everywhere, rifle in one hand and tomahawk in the other. In turn squatter hunter, trapper, warrior, and miner, he traversed America from the highest peaks of the Cordilleras to the ocean shores, living from hand to mouth, happy for the day, careless of the morrow. Hence it is that in these stories he only describes his own life. The Indians of whom he speaks, he has known; the manners he depicts were his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.