To the Reader
From my youth up, no book ever fascinated me like one of travel and adventure in Indian lands, where danger attends every step; and, believing that the hair-breadth escapes of my young friends, Hal and Ned, in crossing with me, the great plains of the South-West, a few years since, will prove entertaining, as well as instructive, I have taken great pleasure in recounting them.
The delineation of the habits, characteristics, and barbarous customs of the savages, who, for centuries, have roamed over those vast plains, is the result of my personal observation among these, now fast vanishing, Indian tribes.
If this narrative proves a sufficient inducement for you to follow “THE TRAIL HUNTERS,” to the end, a future volume to be entitled “CROSSING THE QUICKSANDS, OR HAL AND NED ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE,” will acquaint you with some of the startling adventures befalling my young friends, after reaching their homes in the far west.
Hoping to merit your hearty commendation, I have the honor to subscribe myself, THE AUTHOR.