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Title: Three Years on the Plains
Observations of Indians, 1867-1870

Author: Edmund B. Tuttle

Release Date: January 28, 2007 [EBook #20463]

Language: English

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THREE YEARS ON THE PLAINS

[Illustration: THE DEATH OF JOHNSON IN COLORADO.

_Frontispiece._]

THREE YEARS ON THE PLAINS

OBSERVATIONS OF INDIANS,
1867-1870

EDMUND B. TUTTLE

"_Like an old pine-tree, I am dead at the top._"

--_Speech of an old chief_

Dedication

TO
GEN. W. T. SHERMAN,
WHOSE SPLENDID TRIUMPHS IN TIMES OF WAR SHED LUSTRE UPON
THE NATION'S HISTORY,
AND
WHOSE WISE COUNSELS IN TIMES OF PEACE WILL
INCREASE THE NATION'S STRENGTH AND
PRESERVE ITS HONOR, THIS
LITTLE BOOK IS, BY
PERMISSION,

Respectfully Dedicated.

LETTER FROM GENERAL SHERMAN

HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, D. C.,

June 13th, 1870.

REV. E. B. TUTTLE, FORT D. A. RUSSELL, W. T.

DEAR SIR,--I have your letter of June 8th, and do not, of course,
object to your dedicating your volume on Indians to me. But please
don't take your facts from the newspapers, that make me out as
favoring extermination.

I go as far as the farthest in favor of lavishing the kindness
of our people and the bounty of the general government on those
Indians who settle down to reservations and make the least effort
to acquire new habits; but to those who will not settle down, who
cling to