Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West
First Edition
Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West, Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington, 1882. First edition, Large format 9" tall; 653 pages, Landmark work on native Americans of the west. Illustrated with steel engraved portraits, half leather with marbled boards, and decorative endpages, gilt titles to spine. fascinating late 19th-century account of the lives and customs of Native American Indians written by Richard Dodge, a military aide to General Sherman who spent most of his career in the American West. This book is a broad discussion of practices and lifestyles of native American tribes including Apache, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, and Comanche people. Includes mysterious Indian medicine and sacred rituals descriptions of Indian culture. Explores their social life, religion, habits, traits, customs, and war practices. Board edges rubbed, spine head has a 1.5 inch split. blind stamped and ink stamped. An important work.Item #18721
Price: $1,400.00
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