Excerpt from William Jones: Indian, Cowboy, American Scholar, and Anthropologist in the Field In the spring of 1900 - about the time when the grass began to be green in the Yard at Harvard College, and the leaves of horse-chestnuts on Cambridge streets to appear as knobs like the tips of young horns - two friends lay and sunned themselves in a warm comer between brick buildings. They were both young, both poor, and by all rights should have been thinking of their uncertain futures. Instead, they lay talking of the past, of boyhood, of things which they liked to remember and tell at haphazard, there in the spring sunshine on the new grass. Down a street leading to the Charles, people were beating carpets, so that, in the pauses of reminiscence, echoes galloped up like the sound of flying hoofs. One of these two men had a career already opening before him. 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.