American Indian Literature

New York: Hastings House True Stories of the Frontier Indians (from "Montana", the Magazine of Western History"). Dust jacket with mylar, X-library with usual markings, no pocket in back, CR 1965, 342 pages with index and black and white photos by Catlin, Curtis, Charles Russell, O. Seltzer, P. Kane, W. A Huffman, and others. Historical articles about the indians of the High Plains and the Rockies. From the dim and little known pre-Columbian epoch to the Lewis & Clark journey, with the arrival of horses, trade goods, whisky and white-man's religion to the testing of strength through Custer's Battle of Little Big Horn to the reservation hardship and near starvation to the brutal slaughter of Wounded Knee, this collection of historical stories is required reading for the Western Americana lover.. Hard Cover. more information

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