See also his "History of Steamboat Navigation on the
Missouri River" (1903).
A. J. SOWELL, "Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest
Texas," 1900. A local book, but done with contemporary accuracy
by a man who also studied the Texas Rangers and who was familiar
with some of the earlier frontier characters of the Southwest.
The foregoing volumes are of course but a few among the many
scores or hundreds which will have been read avidly by every man
concerned with frontier life or with the expansion of the
American people to the West. Space lacks for a fuller list, but
the foregoing readings will serve to put upon the trail of wider
information any one interested in these and kindred themes.
Let especial stress again be laid upon the preeminent value of
books done by contemporaries, men who wrote, upon the ground, of
things which they actually saw and actually understood. It is not
always, or perhaps often, that these contemporary books achieve
the place which they ought to have and hold.
Among the many books dealing with the Indians and Indian Wars,
the following may be mentioned: J.
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