Excerpt from Legends of the Ozarks But a few years will elapse when the wild, untutored fathers of America will have departed forever; the last generation of the Red Man will disappear like shadows before the zenith flash of Caucasian civilization, and only their wierd traditions and bright-fancied legends will remain to remind the white man of the primeval settlers of the greatest Republic that floats a banner 'neath the stars. The beautiful imagery and day dreams of the savage, the paradise of his hopes, the ambition of his unexampled nature, the love which he never otherwise exhibited, and the superstitions which the wild and lonesome forests created in him, are worthy of perpetuation. They serve to soften the aspersions cast upon the Indians character and ennoble a nature which, in the eyes of the progressive and unsympathetic white man, is pronounced immovable and destitute of moral instincts. 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.