Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West. A Popular Acoount of their Social Life, Religion, Habits, Traits, Customs, Exploits, etc. With an Introduction by General William T. Sherman.
Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Company, 1882. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy in rebound brown leather binding with the original leather backstrip attached. In 1882, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, Aid-de-Camp to General Sherman, wrote in the Author’s Preface "The greater part of the past thirty-four years of my life has been spent on the frontier in more or less direct contact with Indians. I present in this volume a detailed account of the characteristics, habits, and,--what I particularly desire to invite attention to,--a minute and careful study of the social or inner life of the wild Indian of the present day." Complete with 6 full-page chromolithograph plates, 17 full-page steel cut illustrations, frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Item #28037
Price: $600.00