How greatly should I prefer eating my daily meals with my family, in an Indian wig-WAM, to boarding at a table d'hote in these capacious hotels; the custom, however, seems universal through the country, at least we have met it, without a shadow of variation as to its general features, from New Orleans to Buffalo.
"Domestic Manners of the Americans"
Fanny Trollope
Without, however, any definite scientific object, or indeed any motive much more important than a love of novelty, I determined on visiting America; within whose wide extent all the elements of society, civilized and uncivilized, were to be found-where the great city could be traced to the infant town-where villages dwindle into scattered farms-and these to the log-house of the solitary backwoodsman, and the temporary wig-WAM of the wandering Pawnee.
"A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America"
S. A. Ferrall
When he came to that part of the story where the Indian comes from his wig-WAM to meet the white man, he said, nearly in the same words used by Big-neck, "While I shake hands with my white brother, my white brother shoots me down-my best chief"-he here paused, and lifting his eyes above the heads of the auditors, his lip curling a little, but resuming again, almost immediately, its natural position, he pronounced in a low but distinct guttural tone, the Indian word meaning "my son."
"A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America"
S. A. Ferrall
