EDISON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GREENFIELD, MICHIGAN, THE EARLY-AMERICAN VILLAGE, MENLO PARK, INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM.
45p, cloth, illustrated, very good plus in glassene wrapper. Edison postcards laid-in.
NATIVE AMERICAN
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INDIAN NARRATIVES:. Containing a Correct and Interesting History of the Indian Wars, From the Landing of Our Pilgrim Fathers, 1620, to Gen. Wayne's victory, 1794.
Claremont, N.H. Tracy and Brothers, 1854. 276p, gilt decorated cloth, book plate removed, spine faded with light wear to extremities, foxing on some pages, good. First edition. Includes two captivity narratives and the burning of Royalton (Vermont).
A TROOPER WITH CUSTER, And Other Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Columbus, Ohio: Hunter-Trader-Trapper Co., 1925. 214p, illustrated, covers soiled, good. First edition. Vol. I of "The Frontier Series." An expanded version was published in Harrisburg, Pa. in 1952. Contains William C. Slaper's account of the Battle of Big Horn. Brininstool contributed several articles about Custer and the Battle.
LITTLE THUNDER.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1945. No pagination (24p), color illustrated boards, illustrated by Roberta Paflin, light wear to cover edges, vg in dust jacket with edge tears. First edition. Many color illustrations including some full page. Story of a little Indian boy's hunting adventures. Apparently there.....
AB-SA-RA-KA, HOME OF THE CROWS, Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. 284p, cloth, illustrated (incl. fold-out map), bookplate, some loosening and browning of paper, wear to spine ends, minor tear to map mended with tape, good. First edition. Howes. USiana C-175. Much on the Indians and U.S. Army in the West, especially Nebraska, Wyoming.....
LIFE AND TIMES OF GEN. SAM. DALE, THE MISSISSIPPI PARTISAN.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1860. 233p, blind stamped cloth, rebacked with original spine laid on, original endpapers preserved, wear to edges, some loosening, former owner's signature on front endpaper, good. First edition. Illustrated with full page illustrations by John M'Lenan. "Personal adventures of Alabama's most notable Indian Fighter.".....
MONUMENT TO AND HISTORY OF THE MINGO INDIANS. Facts and Traditions About This Tribe, Their Wars, Chiefs, Camps, Villages and Trails. Monument Dedicated to their Memory Near the Village of Mingo, in Tygarts River Valley of West Virginia.
No Place: William H. Cobb, (1921). 82p, cloth, light damp stains on cover, paper browning, good. First edition.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID ZEISBERGER, The Western Pioneer and Apostle of the Indians.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1870. 747p, cloth, light wear to head and tail of spine, bumped corner, good - very good. First edition. USIANA D-273. Thomson. 324:"Valuable not merely to the general reader, but for the student of Moravian History among the Indians." Zeisberger (1721-1808) was born in.....
FROM THE DEEP WOODS TO CIVILIZATION, Including Excerptws from Indian Boyhood.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 2001. 341p, cloth, 6 1/4" x 4 1/4", top edge gilt, illustrated (some in color), very good. Autobiography of a Dakota from boyhood through transformation into a physician, popular author, and internationally known lecturer.
STORIES AND LEGENDS OF THE BERING STRAIT ESKIMOS.
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1940. 260p, cloth, illustrated, covers lightly spotted, vg in soiled and worn dj. Signed by the author. Legends of Eskimos of Alaska and northern Canada. Garber, a native of Richland County, Ohio, and a graduate of Wittenberg College and Ohio State University, was superintendent of Eskimo.....
OO-MAH-HA TA-WA-THA (OMAHA CITY).
Lincoln, Nebraska: 1898. 94p, 5 5/8" x 4 1/8", decorated cloth, illustrated (2 color plates), light wear to edges, o/w very good. First edition, inscribed by author ("From the author, 1 of 12/98." With illustrations by Susette La Flesche Tibbles (Bright Eyes). Preface claims illustrations are first by a Native.....
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN LEETH. With an Account of His Life Among the Indians. Introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1904. 70p, cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated, paper lightly browned, former owner's signature, light rubbing to edges, good plus. In a mylar jacket. No. 156 of 250 copies. Reprint of the 1831 edition. Leeth was a fur trader captured by the Indians in the Ohio.....
ON THE FRONTIER WITH COLONEL ANTES. Or, The Struggle for Supremacy of the Red and White Races in Pennsylvania.
Camden, N.J. S. Chew & Sons, Printers, 1900. 513p, cloth, illustrated, paper browning slightly, o/w vg. First edition. #5 of 1000.
LIFE OF MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK OR BLACK HAWK, Embracing the Tradition of His Nation-Indian Wars.
1834. Patterson, J.B. (ed). LIFE OF MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK OR BLACK HAWK., Embracing the Tradition of his Nation- Indian Wars in which He Has Been Engaged...Dictated by Himself. Boston, 1834. Varient edition with no publisher or printer listed. 155p, frontis portrait, foxing, nicely rebound in boards with remainder of original label on.....
THE DANGERS AND SUFFERINGS OF ROBERT EASTBURN, AND HIS DELIVERANCE FROM INDIAN CAPTIVITY. Introduction and Notes by John R. Spears.
Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1904. 76p, cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated, light browning of paper, light edge wear, very good. No. 135 of 250 copies. Reprint from the original 1758 edition. Howes, USIANA, E15. Eastburn was captured in New York during the French and Indian war.
MY LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY AS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST, AUTHOR, ARTIST.
Elyria, Ohio: White Horse Publishers, 1992. 280p, 11" x 8 1/2", boards, illustrated with drawings and photographs, vg+. Ohio author.
ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER WITH THE U.S. CAVALRY.
No place, 1934. 98p, wraps, frontis, very good+. First edition. (Usiana W-259.) The Modoc War, Montana operations, etc. with Troop L, First Cavalry. (Controvich A308). Herman (1856-1944) was the brother of Paul Werner, fonder of the Werner Publishing Co., and was active in veterans affairs in Akron after service in.....
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