INTRODUCTORY

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

POWHATAN: THE GREAT SACHEM OF VIRGINIA

OPECHANCANOUGH: THE SCOURGE OF VIRGINIA

SASSACUS AND UNCAS: RIVAL CHIEFTAINS OF THE PEQUOT REBELLION

MASSASOIT: THE GREAT SACHEM OF THE WAMPANOAGS AND FRIEND OF THE PURITANS

KING PHILIP, OR METACOMET

PONTIAC: THE RED NAPOLEON

LOGAN: THE MIGHTY ORATOR AND WARRIOR OF THE MINGOES

RED JACKET, OR SA-GO-YE-WAT-HA: THE GREAT ORATOR OF THE SENECAS

CAPTAIN JOSEPH BRANT: THE WARRIOR CHIEF OF THE MOHAWKS

LITTLE TURTLE, OR MICHIKINIQUA: THE MIAMI CONQUEROR OF HARMAR AND ST. CLAIR

TECUMSEH, "THE SHOOTING STAR": CELEBRATED SHAWANOE DIPLOMAT, ORATOR AND SOLDIER

WEATHERFORD: THE CREEK CONSPIRATOR AND FEARLESS FIGHTER

BLACK HAWK: CHIEF OF THE SACS AND FOXES AND LEADER OF THE BLACK HAWK REBELLION

OSCEOLA: THE SNAKE OF THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES

ROMAN NOSE: THE CUSTER OF THE CHEYENNES

GERONIMO: THE TERRIBLE APACHE

RED CLOUD: THE SIOUX VON SEYDLITZ

SITTING BULL AND CRAZY HORSE: GENERAL AND ABLE LIEUTENANT OF THE GREAT SIOUX REBELLION

CONCLUSION.

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

COSY CORNER SERIES

FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS

THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA

PRESENTED BY
PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND
MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID

FAMOUS INDIAN
CHIEFS

Their battles, treaties, sieges, and struggles
with the whites for the possession
of America

By
CHARLES H. L. JOHNSTON
Author of "Famous Cavalry Leaders," etc.

Illustrated

BOSTON. L. C. PAGE &
COMPANY. PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1909
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)

All rights reserved

First Impression, November, 1909
Second Impression, September, 1910
Third Impression, September, 1911

Printed by
THE COLONIAL PRESS:
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

Dedicated
To All Schoolboys and Young Men