American Indian Trails of the West

There was a time when America knew nothing of freeways cutting through her prairies nor of smokestacks piercing her clear blue skies. Even bustling gold mining settlements, fringed buggies and Colt Walker pistols did not exist. These were only a faint shadow of the future to come. This was the time of the American Indian. With cultures and ways of life that differed from tribe to tribe and nation to nation, these people spread from coast to coast. Even today, over 500 groups of Native peopl