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A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815
by Dowd, Gregory Evans
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Collectible - Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0801842360
- ISBN 13
- 9780801842368
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
$22.00$19.80
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About This Item
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Fine/Near Fine. various artists. 6.25"x9.25". 261 indexed pages. Toast cloth boards. Tan cloth spine w/brown lettering. Toast paste downs. DJ from The Open door, Known as the Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh by George Catlin. Frontispiece: Tenskwatawa, "The Prophet". Includes bibliographical references. DJ design: Ann Walston. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal shelf wear to DJ. GIFT QUALITY. In the early 1800s, when once-powerful North American Indian peoples were being driven west across the Mississippi, a Shawnee prophet collapsed into a deep sleep. When he awoke, he told friends and family of his ascension to Indian heaven, where his grandfather had given him a warning: "Beware of the religion of the white man: every Indian who embraces it is obliged to take the road to the white man's heaven; and yet no red man is permitted to enter there, but will have to wander about forever without a resting place.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13209
- Title
- A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815
- Author
- Dowd, Gregory Evans
- Illustrator
- various artists
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0801842360
- ISBN 13
- 9780801842368
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Date Published
- 1992
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