Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales with Notes on the Origin, Customs, and Character of the Pawnee People by George Bird Grinnell - 1961

Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 1961 Bison Books, Lincoln, NE. 1961. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 6th Printing by Line Number. Reproduction of the 1889 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for place of purchase sticker on front wrap- Pawnee Bill Museum. Book Condition: Good +; light wear to head, tail, and tips; rubbing to panels; small crease on rear upper tip; light water ring on front wrap; light soiling to textblock fore edge. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine has slight crease but is not split; text is secure in binding. 417 pp 8vo. In the late 1880s the ethnologist and writer George Bird Grinnell visited the Pawnee Agency in Oklahoma Indian Territory. To Eagle Chief, whom he had known for many years, he explained the object of his visit: "Father, we have come down here to . . . ask the people about how things used to be in the olden times, to hear their stories, to get their history, and then to put all these things down in a book." The chief meditated for a time and then said: "It is good and it is time. Already the old things are being lost, and those who know the secrets are many of them dead. . . . The old men told their grandchildren, and they told their grandchildren, and so the secrets and the stories and the doings of long ago have been handed down." These are those stories as recorded by Grinnell. A clean very presentable copy.