Excerpt from The Journal of Jacob Fowler: Narrating an Adventure From Arkansas Through the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, to the Sources of Rio Grande Del Norte, 1821-22 Jacob fowler is an unknown author whose work has never before been heralded beyond the private circles of his friends, relatives, and descendants. The editor Of his Journal has therefore a man as well as a book to introduce to the public. Being responsible for the appearance of the latter in print, he will pres ently say something on that score. But first let us hear from Colonel R. T. Durrett, Of Louisville, Ky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.