Author: GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD
Title: The Indians of to-Day
Description: Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full tan cloth, black lettering on spine, cover with red and black borders and vignette stamped in black, red and yellow, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges deckle. Illustrated with 55 full-page photographic portraits of native Americans of various tribes living at the time of this book's publication (1900). NB: George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life. Grinnell obtained a position in 1870 with an expedition of the Peabody Museum at New Haven to collect vertebrate fossils in the West for six months.[2] He became friendly with, and was able to take part in the last great hunt of the Pawnee in 1872. He spent many years studying the natural history of the region. As a Yale graduate student, he accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's 1874 Black Hills expedition as a naturalist. (He later declined a similar invitation for the ill-fated 1876 Little Big Horn expedition.) In 1887, Grinnell was a founding member, with Theodore Roosevelt, of the Boone and Crockett Club, dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands. Other founding members included General William Tecumseh Sherman and Gifford Pinchot. Grinnell and Roosevelt published the Club's first book in 1895. Grinnell also organized the first Audubon Society and was an organizer of the New York Zoological Society. Of his work, President Theodore Roosevelt said, "In his books… Mr. George Bird Grinnell has portrayed [the Indians] with a master hand; it is hard to see how his work can be bettered." Mount Grinnell in Glacier National Park in Montana is named after him. A couple of very small and light marks on cover, else near fine; unmarked, tight, square, fresh, and clean. All of the portraits clean and bright. NEAR FINE. Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 185 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .
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Title: The Indians of to-Day
Description: Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full tan cloth, black lettering on spine, cover with red and black borders and vignette stamped in black, red and yellow, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges deckle. Illustrated with 55 full-page photographic portraits of native Americans of various tribes living at the time of this book's publication (1900). NB: George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life. Grinnell obtained a position in 1870 with an expedition of the Peabody Museum at New Haven to collect vertebrate fossils in the West for six months.[2] He became friendly with, and was able to take part in the last great hunt of the Pawnee in 1872. He spent many years studying the natural history of the region. As a Yale graduate student, he accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's 1874 Black Hills expedition as a naturalist. (He later declined a similar invitation for the ill-fated 1876 Little Big Horn expedition.) In 1887, Grinnell was a founding member, with Theodore Roosevelt, of the Boone and Crockett Club, dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands. Other founding members included General William Tecumseh Sherman and Gifford Pinchot. Grinnell and Roosevelt published the Club's first book in 1895. Grinnell also organized the first Audubon Society and was an organizer of the New York Zoological Society. Of his work, President Theodore Roosevelt said, "In his books… Mr. George Bird Grinnell has portrayed [the Indians] with a master hand; it is hard to see how his work can be bettered." Mount Grinnell in Glacier National Park in Montana is named after him. A couple of very small and light marks on cover, else near fine; unmarked, tight, square, fresh, and clean. All of the portraits clean and bright. NEAR FINE. Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 185 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: American Indians Native Americans American History Illustrated Books George Bird Grinnell American West History Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 500.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 29958
- Book number: 29958
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