The Scalp Hunters Or Romantic Adventures In Northern Mexico

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Excerpt from The Scalp-Hunters: Or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico About a year ago, I submitted to the public a book under the title of "The Rifle Rangers." It was prefaced as "truth poetically coloured;" truth for the groundwork, the flowering fancy; fact, enamelled by fiction: a mosaic of romance and reality. Some have said that the "poetic colouring" was a thought too vivid. Perhaps it was so; but the general judgment upon that little effort not only satisfied but gratified me; and to you who have pronounced in its favour, I now offer "another of the same." I shall be quite content if your sentence upon this be marked by no greater severity. I regret that my book exhibits no higher purpose than to amuse; but I have endeavoured to enamel its pages with a thousand facts, the result of my own experience. I have endeavoured to paint scenes of a strange land as they are painted on my memory. If you cannot believe them true, may I hope that you will acknowledge their vraisemhlance? But why should I contend for their truthfulness, after declaring myself guilty of no higher aim than to amuse you? I will not, then. Let it all pass for a fiction - a novel, if you will; but, in return for this concession on my part, permit me to ask you, do you not think it a "novel kind" of a novel? If you answer this question in the affirmative, then have I won my purpose. Before going further, I have two words to say: one of warning to you, and one of apology for myself. My scenes are of a sanguinary nature; some of them extremely so; but, alas! far less red than the realities from which they were drawn. 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.