Excerpt from The Song of Three FriendsThe following narrative, though complete in itself, is designed to be the first piece in a cycle of poems dealing with the fur trade period of the trans-missouri region. The Song of Hugh Glass, which was published in the fall of 1915, is the second in the series.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.