Author: Hope, Ascott R
Title: The Wigwam And The War-Path - Tales Of The Red Indians
Description: Blackie & Co, Glasgow, nd c 1925, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. 352pp, b/w frontis, 3 b/w plates, prize label, dustjacket in fair condition, with loss at the base of the spine & chips along the edges, colouring quite bright, front image & image on spine in nice condition. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A collection of 17 tales of contact between exploring & settleing Europeans & the Indigenous American Indians. The book is non fiction - the first tale tells of Juan Ortiz who was a member of the 1527 Narvez expedition. The preface states 'the author's main object has been to produce a book of stirring while not uninstructive narrative for boys, who show such a friendly regard for the red man in fiction, that they may well be willing to know something of him as he was in fact'.

Keywords: fiction, childs, wild west, red indians, cowboys, western