Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America

Catlin, George (Edited by C.J. Shepherd.)

Verlag: Folio Society, London

Beschreibung

2009. (4to in slipcase) Fine, no dust jacket. 470pp. Beige cloth with blue and brown illustration to the cover and spine in near a fine brown slipcase. Map endpapers, color illustrated frontispiece, color illustrated title page, color illustrations, biographical notes, further reading, index. The slipcase has a minor bump to the bottom front-facing edge. "Early fire in the leaves brightens the ravines of high, bare hills across the canyon. A cool autumnal wind wanders this lookout high above the great Snake River, which no far south of this Wyoming peak bends westward through the Tetons into its high hawk-shadowed canyons in south Idaho" - from the Introduction. Time Period 1830's. Edited by C.J. Shepherd. Introduction by Peter Matthiessen. Abridged by C.J. Shepherd. Identified on spine as North American Indians. Locale: Idaho--United States; Missouri River. (Indians of N.A., Exploration, Indians of North America, Indigenous Peoples--United States, Plains Indians, Travel and Adventure, Western America).

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America
• Verlag: Folio Society, London
• Einband: Hardcover
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