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Tales of the Northwest, or, Sketches of Indian life and character / By a resident beyond the frontier.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E77 .S672 1830
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snelling, William Joseph, 1804-1848.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America.
- Dakota Indians.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Sketches of Indian life and character
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1830.
- Contents:
- The captive.
- The Hohays.
- The devoted.
- Payton Skah.
- Charles Hess.
- The Bois Brûlé.
- Weenokhenchah Wandeeteekah.
- La Butte des Morts.
- Pinchon.
- The lover's leap.
- Notes:
- The author lived for a time among the Dakota Indians, and later became a trapper near Fort Snelling.
- Cited in:
- Eberstadt no. III-247
- Howes, U.S.IANA, no. S.738
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 2477
- OCLC:
- 1361576
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