Excerpt from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 of 20: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and AlaskaDear mr. Curtis, We are looking with great interest to the first volume of your great work. It may gratify you to know that the one Director who alone objected to paying for your work at a time when the library was particularly hard up and had to pull in its horns even on $1 books, has become converted and realizes at last that no respectable public library can do without such a historic record.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.