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Red Men and White, by Owen Wister
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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 wi