The story of the Indian / by George Bird Grinnell, author of Pawnee hero stories and folk tales, Blackfoot lodge tales, etc

Author: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Published: New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1898.
Copyright Date: ©1895
Physical Description: xi, 270 pages, sixteen unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Additional Creators: D. Appleton and Company

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Series

Story of the West series

Contents

His home -- Recreations -- A marriage -- Subsistence -- His hunting -- The war trail -- Fortunes of war -- Prairie battlefields -- Implements and industries -- Man and nature -- His creation -- The world of the dead -- Pawnee religion -- The old faith and the new -- The coming of the White Man -- Appendix : the North Americans--yesterday and to-day.

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Collection

Richard Minsky’s American Trade Bindings with Native American Themes 1875-1933 Exhibition Collection.

Provenance

Rare Books copy: Formerly part of book artist Richard Minsky's American Trade Bindings with Native American Themes 1875-1933 Exhibition Collection.

Note

"Illustrated."
Rare Books copy is one of the specimens collected by book artist Richard Minsky and described in his exhibition catalog American Trade Bindings with Native American Themes, 1875-1933: Stockport, New York : Richard Minsky, 2014.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Binding Information

Publisher's light brown cloth stamped on cover in black and silver with an oval frame of bracelets and arrowheads enclosing silver title above a small cluster of black and silver feathers; spine title in silver with a feather and circle shield emblem. Unsigned.

Source of Acquisition

Rare Books copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 2014.
Rare Books copy: Purchased from Richard Minsky, book artist; 2014.

Reviewed/Cited In

Minsky, R. American trade bindings with Native American themes 1875-1933, page 47

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