Excerpt from Indian Wars of the West: Containing Biographical Sketches of Those Pioneers Who Headed the Western Settlers in Repelling the Attacks of the Savages, Together With a View of the Character, Manners, Monuments, and Antiquities of the Western Indians A line round the edge of the imniense -basin, commen cing at the northern sources of the head waters of the lakes, round the Aileghanies, the gulf of Florida, the mountains that separate the Waters of the Rio del Norte from those of the Mississippi, 'and the central ridges of the Rocky mountains the waters of the Missouri the gulf of California, and the Oregon, and thence around the head sources of the Mississippi, to it's commencement north of the lakes, would be at least five thousand miles ih extent. 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.