Adair's History of the American Indians by Samuel Cole Williams, LL.D - 1930

This book is in good condition. The cover has some wear on the front, back, spine, edges and corners. There are also stains on the spine. The previous owners mark is on the inside front cover board.and the front end page. The pages are still crisp, white and clean.

"James Adair's History of the American Indians, published in London in 1775, has always been regarded and treated by ethnologists and historians as reliable authority on Southern Indians, as well as on Southern history in a period of no little obscurity.The book has long been rare, selling in 1930 at one hundred dollars a copy. Recognizing its value as a source material on Southern history of the colonial period, the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, in Tennessee, determined to bring out a reprint, which would be annotated to supplementing some degree Adair's own detailed and vivid description of life among the Indians of the South, east of the Mississippi River; of the Indian trade and traders, and of intrigue and wars that involved both of the red and white races, in the years of struggle for the possession of the Mississippi Valley by the French and English.