Excerpt from Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border: Comprising Descriptions of the Indian Nomads of the Plains; Explorations of New Territory; A Trip Across the Rocky Mountains in the Winter; Descriptions of the Habits of Different Animals Found in the West, and the Methods of Hunting Them IN the third volume of Bancroft's History of the United States may be found a very circumstantial, comprehensive, and reliable account Of the aborigines, who, from the time Of the advent of Europeans, have inhabited that portion Of our territory lying east of the Mississippi River, and the author, in this connection, has presented many highly ia teresting facts relative to their habits, languages, institu tions, and religions; but, with the exception Of a brief allu sion to the partially civilized eastern Sioux or Dacotahs, he as yet has said nothing concerning the Comanche, Kio way, Cheyenne, and other numerous and waflike tribes that range over the great plains west of the Mississippi. 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.