A self-portrait of Indian existence in the United States, here is a selection of statements and writings which illuminate the course of Indian history and the abiding values of Indian life. The passages range from the witty, the eloquent, the lyric, to the deeply emotional. 7" x 8-1/2".

Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence

T. C. McLuhan

Literature & Fiction

Promontory Press

A selection of meditations and writings by North American Indians that illuminates the course of Native American history and explores the nature and fate of the Indian way of life

Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence

History

McLUHAN, T.C.

Americas

dust jacket has some tears and nicks. book is in good condition

The life, times, and treacherous death of Jesse James

Biographies & Memoirs

TRIPLETT, Frank

True Crime

Quantrill and His Civil War Guerrillas

Quantrill and his Civil War guerrillas

Breihan, Carl W.

Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Promontory Press (1973) Language: English ISBN-10: 0883940035 ISBN-13: 978-0883940037 Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds

Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War

Warren Ripley

More than eighty full-sized portraits capture the beauty and pathos of native American life in what the author calls "a record of the Indian's relations with and his dependence on the phenomena of the universe." This is the original 11 X 15 (full-sized) version of the book.

Portraits from North American Indian Life

Arts & Photography

CURTIS,EDWARD S.

Photography & Video

Remains an exceptionally comprehensive source work for the American Revolution, invaluable for its seventy-six-chapter narrative history of the war and especially its 41 specially prepared topographical illustrations of all the major battlefields, created for the original 1881 publication, each accompanied by a capsule summary of the battle involved, the opposing forces, the events, the outcome, notes, and the references available at the time

Battles of the American Revolution, 1775-1781, including Battle maps and charts of the American Revolution

Carrington, Henry Beebee

With 69 color plates and 180 black and white illustrations.

Indian art in America: The arts and crafts of the North American Indian

DOCKSTADER, Frederick J.

Powell was a civil war officer who later took a teaching position at Illinois Normal University. He was by nature an explorer and spent considerable time tramping the upper Midwest. In the summer of 1867, he and some of his students made a field trip to the headwaters and tributaries of the Green River. Intrigued with the country, he returned in 1868, wintered there, and decided to mount an expedition to explore the course and navigability of the river. On May 24, 1869, Major Powell and a small band of men launched four boats to begin what would be a 99-day expedition from known territory in Wyoming to known territory in Nevada. Between the two settlements lay some 1000 miles of what Powell called "the Great Unknown." He and his men basically had to invent expedition river running. The boats, stout and heavy, were off-the-shelf navy longboats with sharp cutwaters, meant to be rowed bow-first on the sea rather than down rock-studded rivers. Powell's discovery run, fraught with excitement and tragedy, proved that the river originating in northwest Wyoming was the same river that ended in the Gulf of California, that it went through the Grand Canyon, and that it could be traveled by boat. As they came down the river they took periodic observations of latitude and longitude, elevations, and estimates of distance that allowed mapmakers to show the river's course. In 1871-1872 Powell led a second expedition over most of the same route. Several accounts of the expeditions were published in government documents and popular publications of the time and were read avidly by those who planned to try the river later.

Down the Colorado: Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon

PORTER, Eliot

John Wesley Powell

New York NY: Promontory Press, 1973. Part of the Cookery Americana Series. This book consists of facsimilies of two cookbooks The Presbyterian Cook Book(1875) compiled by the ladies of the First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio and of the third edition (1906) of Capital City Cook Book by the Women's Guild of Grace Church, Madison WI. Book in very good clean, tight, unread condition. Jacket has obvious water stain to bottom 1/2 of spine, the book is not stained. minor bumps, all intact. Original price $8.95 intact along w/amt in ink.. First Thus.

Midwestern home cookery (Cookery Americana)

SZATHMARY, Louis, Introduced By

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