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Woman Chief / by Rose Sobol.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sobol, Rose.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Woman Chief--Juvenile fiction.
- Woman Chief.
- Crow Indians--Juvenile fiction.
- Crow Indians.
- Woman Chief--Fiction.
- Crow Indians--Fiction.
- Indians of North America--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 108 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Dial Press, [©1976]
- Summary:
- Fictional account based on contemporary writing of Woman Chief, chief of the Crow Indians who struggled for recognition as a hunter, warrior, and leader.
- Notes:
- "First Printing."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "Jacket painting by Barbara Sandler. Design by Jane Byers Bierhorst."--Dust jacket.
- "This is a true story. There once was an Indian woman who became a chief of the Crows ... The outline of her life is recorded in the journal of Edwin Thompson Denig. A fur trader for twenty-five years, Denig knew her personally. His manuscript was edited by John C. Ewers and published as a book, 'Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri,' in 1968."--Foreword.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803796552
- 9780803796553
- OCLC:
- 2164867
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