Our wild Indians : thirty-three years' personal experience among the red men of the great West : a popular account of their social life, religion, habits, traits, customs, exploits, etc., with thrilling adventures and experiences on the great plains and in the mountains of our wide frontier / by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge ... ; with an introduction by General Sherman ; fully illustrated with portraits on steel, full-page engravings on wood, and fine chromo-lithography plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodge, Richard Irving, 1827-1895.

Contributor:

Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844-1907, illustrator.

Taylor, James E., illustrator.

Lange, J., illustrator.

Karst, John, 1836-1922, engraver.

Spiegle, Charles, approximately 1831- engraver.

Bellinger, A., engraver.

Laplante, Charles, 1837-1903, engraver.

Pannemaker, Adolphe François, 1822-1900, engraver.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--West (U.S.).

Genre:

Gold tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1883.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1883.

Penn Provenance:

Potts, Edgar L. (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xxxix, 653 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), music, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hartford, Conn. : A.D. Worthington and Co. ; Chicago, Ill. : A.G. Nettleton & Co. ; St. Louis, Mo. : N.D. Thompson & Co. ; Cleveland, O. : C.C. Wick & Co., 1883.

Notes:

Black-and-white plates included in the pagination sequence; the six color plates are not included in the sequence.

Includes illustrations by Ernest Griset, James E. Taylor, J. Lange.

Includes engravings by Pannemaker, John Karst, Charles Speigle, A. Bellinger, C. Laplante.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has copious critical ms. marginal notes, marks and underlining in pencil or colored pencil throughout.

RBC copy imperfect: p. 275-276, 435-446, 449-468, 523-53 (including plate opp. p. 526) wanting; p. 645-652 detached from spine; plates opp. p. 306 and p. 422 mended at inner margin.

Athenaeum copy: Bound in brown cloth, designs in gold and gilt on front cover and spine.

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

OCLC:

4106235