Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen; with Anecdotes Descriptive of Their Manners and Customs; to which Is Added, Some Account of the Soil Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823. Second edition, with an added portrait of the author (same year as the first). 8vo. ix, 447 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece (facing right). Experiences, 1800-1815, in what were then the Missouri and Arkansas territories. Sabin 33921: "There having been some insinuations that the work was a fabrication, the author, in the third edition, addressed a note to his publishers, referring to Colonel Aspinwall and others, as certifying to the authenticity of the work." Howes H-813. Wagner-Camp 24: "His account of life among the Kansas and Osage Indians and his experiences on the prairies sound entirely credible." Field (the 1824 edition). Somewhat later three-quarter leather and marbled boards (joints and spine ends rubbed, edges and corners bumped), gilt title and ornaments between raised bands on spine, floral endpapers. Very good copy. Item #61730
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