I think I have met or heard of fifty "solitary survivors" of Custer's defeat; and I could collect certainly a dozen complete accounts of both it and Reno's fight, each believed by a goodly number of men, and no two relating the story in an even approximately similar fashion.

Mr.Gilmore apparently accepts all such accounts indiscriminately, and embodies them in his narrative without even a reference to his authorities.

I particularize one or two out of very many instances in the chapters dealing with the Cherokee wars.
Books founded upon an indiscriminate acceptance of any and all such traditions or alleged traditions are a little absurd, unless, as already said, they are avowedly merely historic novels, when they may be both useful and interesting.

I am obliged to say with genuine regret, after careful examination of Mr.Gilmore's books, that I cannot accept any single unsupported statement they contain as even requiring an examination into its probability.

I would willingly pass them by without comment, did I not fear that my silence might be construed into an acceptance of their truth.