San Antonio College Library

Contains Native American narratives from all parts of the continent, grouped together by motif.

The reminiscences of 111-year-old Jack Crabb, who has been a frontiersman, Indian scout, gunfighter, adopted Cheyenne and the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.

Both authors ... saw their book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. The text, which was written by Hall based on information supplied by McKenney, takes the form of a series of biographies of leading figures amongst the Indian nations, followed by a general history of the North American Indians. The work is now famous for its color plate portraits of the chiefs, warriors and squaws of the various tribes,...