Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
Italics in the footnotes citations were inconsistently applied by the typesetter.
The following changes were made or suggested:
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THE WORKS
OF
HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT.
VOLUME I.
THE NATIVE RACES.
Vol. I. WILD TRIBES.
SAN FRANCISCO:
A. L. BANCROFT & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
1883.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1882, by
HUBERT H. BANCROFT,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
All Rights Reserved.
PREFACE.
In pursuance of a general plan involving the productionof a series of works on the western half of NorthAmerica, I present this delineation of its aboriginal inhabitantsas the first. To the immense territory borderingon the western ocean from Alaska to Darien, and includingthe whole of Mexico and Central America, I givearbitrarily, for want of a better, the name Pacific States.Stretching almost from pole to equator, and embracingwithin its limits nearly one tenth of the earth's surface,this last Western Land offers to lovers of knowledge anew and enticing field; and, although hitherto its severalparts have been held somewhat asunder by the forceof circumstances, yet are its occupants drawn by natureinto nearness of relationship, and will be brought yetnearer by advancing civilization; the common oceanichighway on the one side, and the great mountain rampartson the other, both tending to this result. Thecharacteristics of this vast domain, material and social,are comparatively unknown and are essentially peculiar.To its exotic civilization all the so-called