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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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.".....
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.....
MILITARY JOURNAL OF MAJOR EBENEZER DENNY, An Officer in the Revolutionary and indian Wars with an Introductory Memoir.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1859. 288p, cloth, 2 portraits and four fold-outs, light damp stain on edge of many pages (not illustrations or title page), wear to cover edges, good. First edition. Denny was a soldier during the American Revolutionary War and also served as Gen. St. Clair's.....
SEVEN AND NINE YEARS AMONG THE CAMANCHES AND APACHES. An Autobiography.
Jersey City, N. J. Clark Johnson, M.D., 1874. 309p, cloth, cover soiled with wear to edges, paper browning, former owner's name in pencil, good. Frontis of author in native costume.
HISTORY OF THE WYANDOTT MISSION AT UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO. Under the Direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
J. F. Wright & L. Swormstedt. 432p, leather with new cloth spine, original label laid on, new endpapers, some wear to edges, foxing, signature of former owner on front fly leaf, good. First edition. USIANA F144. Finley was a famous Methodist circuit rider who served the Ohio Conference beginning in.....
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.....
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 in Which He Has Been Engaged.
Boston, 1834. Varient edition with no publisher or printer listed. 155p, frontis portrait, foxing, nicely rebound in boards with remainder of original label on spine, vg. (USIANA P-120). Includes account of war, confinement at Jefferson Barracks & travels through U.S.
THE INDIAN HISTORY OF THE MODOC WAR AND THE CAUSES THAT LED TO IT.
No Place: The Author, (1914). 295p, illustrated wraps with cloth spine, illustrated (including maps), cover soiled with damage to bottom edge and corner of wraps and front pages (not affecting text), a few pencil marks, fair. Signed by the author with note, "This is the first edition of this book.".....
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.
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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