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Title: The Bridge of the Gods
A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition.

Author: Frederic Homer Balch

Release Date: May 14, 2009 [eBook #28815]

Language: English

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THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS

[Illustration: "_What think you now, Tohomish?_"]

THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS

A Romance of Indian Oregon

by

F. H. BALCH

With eight full-page illustrations by L. Maynard Dixon

NINETEENTH EDITION

Chicago . A. C. McClurg & Co.
Nineteen Hundred & Fifteen

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1890 and 1902

W. F. Hall Printing Company, Chicago

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

Encouraged by the steady demand for Mr. Balch's "The Bridge of the
Gods," since its publication twelve years ago, the publishers have
decided to issue a new edition beautified with drawings from the
pencil of Mr. L. Maynard Dixon. This tale of the Indians of the far
West has fairly earned its lasting popularity, not only by the intense
interest of the story, but by its faithful delineations of Indian
character.

In his boyhood Mr. Balch enjoyed exceptional opportunities to inform
himself regarding the character and manners of the Indians: he visited
them in their homes, watched their industries, heard their legends,
saw their gambling games, listened to their conversation; he
questioned the Indians and the white pioneers, and he read many books
for information on Indian history, traditions, and legends. By
personal inquiry among old natives he learned that the Bridge which
suggested the title of his romance was no fabri