1882 Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

The first edition. 

Smartly rebound in a modern quarter morocco binding, bound by the Temple Bindery.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, five chromolithograph plates, and eighteen monochrome plates.

Collated, lacking page 651-653, and one chromolithograph plate, to face page 128. 

'Our Wild Indians' is an American work in which the author, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, explores the customs, traits, habits, religion and social lives of the 'Red Men of the Great West'.

An interesting work providing insight on American views on Native Americans in the nineteenth century.

The author, Richard Irving Dodge, was an important colonel in the United States Army, who had a long and successful career. His great-uncle was Washington Irving.