THE LIFE AMONG The INDIANS - BY GEOBGE CATLIN - PREFACE - ON my recent return from a long and toilsome campaign amongat the Indian tribes of Sonth and Central America, M well aa those on the Pacific side of the Rocky Mountains in North America, I wau requested to prepare a book of facia for youthful readem on the character and condi- tion of the Americtul Indians. I at once embraced the suggestion made to me, and am here entering upon the plan, the results of which wiIl be met and judged of in the following page the youthful readers of khia volnme will scarcely have read my work on the North American Indians, published some years since, they my reaonably expect me to give some introduction of myself before we atart together, which I will here do in a few words, and leave them to learn more of me when I may........