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Transcriber’s Note

Minor punctuation errors (i.e. missing periods) have been corrected. Variations in hyphenation (i.e. daybreak and day-break) and accented letters (i.e. Santa Fe and Santa Fé) have been retained.

Original spellings have been retained except for these apparent typographical errors:

Page 11, “avowel” changed to “avowal.” (a construing of the frank avowal)

Page 21, “Allottment” changed to “Allotment.” (Their checkered Allotment up to the Time)

Page 54, “Tracts” changed to “Tracks.” (Tracks of a large number of Indians)

Page 66, “chapparel” changed to “chaparral.” (wide sage-fields and chaparral)

Page 81, “firmamet” changed to “firmament.” (they seem to lean against the firmament)

Page 85, “defeaning” changed to “deafening.” (a deafening yell broke upon us)

Page 150, “villianous” changed to “villainous.” (from their villainous propensities)

Page 175, “Cceareke” changed to “Ccearekae.” (Ccearekae. “We have enough to satisfy us)

Page 182, “tatoo” changed to “tattoo.” (they were going to tattoo our faces)

Page 288, “Maysville” changed to “Marysville.” (residing in Marysville, California)

Book-List Section:

Page 3, “insiduous” changed to “insidious.” (youthful mind against the insidious)

Page 4, “dayly” changed to “daily.” (acquainted with the daily experience)

Page 12, “possiblity” changed to “possibility.” (possibility of giving an outline)

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