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Title: Red Men and White

Author: Owen Wister

Illustrator: Frederic Remington

Release Date: May 4, 2009 [EBook #28675]

Language: English

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RED MEN AND WHITE

BY

OWEN WISTER

ILLUSTRATED

BY FREDERIC REMINGTON

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_Printed in the United States of America._

[Illustration: SPECIMEN JONES (Page 36)]

TO

S. B. W. AND O. J. W.

FROM THEIR SON

PREFACE

These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a
past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so
swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life
and manners, and a little through the nearer tie of having here and
there a character in common. Thus they resemble faintly the separate
parts of a whole, and gain, perhaps, something of the invaluable weight
of length; and they have been received by my closest friends with
suspicion.

Many sorts of Americans live in America; and the Atlantic American, it
is to be feared, often has a cautious and conventional imagination. In
his routine he has lived unaware of the violent and romantic era in
eruption upon his soil. Only the elk-hunter has at times returned with
tales at which the other Atlantic Americans have deported themselves
politely; and similarly, but for the assurances of Western readers, I
should have come to doubt the truth of my own impressions. All this is
most natural.

If you will look upon the term "United States" as describing what we
are, you must put upon it a strict and Federal construction. We
undoubtedly use the city of Washington for our general business office,
and in the event of a foreign enemy upon our coasts we should stand
bound together more stoutly than we have shown oursel