Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

by Kroeber, Theodora

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1961 255 pp., [12] leaves of plates, illus., biblio.; 21 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. Age toning. Another copy available. "The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.:" - Publisher. . 23rd printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.