Author: SHARP, Abigail Gardner
Title: History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner
Description: Des Moines, IA, Wallace-Homestead Book Co, 1971. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering and pictorial stamping. 386pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Much, much later facsimile reprint of one of the most famed of all Indian captivity narratives, first published in Des Moines in 1885. The Spirit Lake Massacre was a noted 1856 incident in which a small group of Sioux in northwestern Iowa attacked and killed 35 to 40 white settlers and kidnapped four young women, including 14-year-old Gardner. AYER 263. HOWES S 330. .
Keywords: Native American
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Title: History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner
Description: Des Moines, IA, Wallace-Homestead Book Co, 1971. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering and pictorial stamping. 386pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Much, much later facsimile reprint of one of the most famed of all Indian captivity narratives, first published in Des Moines in 1885. The Spirit Lake Massacre was a noted 1856 incident in which a small group of Sioux in northwestern Iowa attacked and killed 35 to 40 white settlers and kidnapped four young women, including 14-year-old Gardner. AYER 263. HOWES S 330. .
Keywords: Native American
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 43828
- Book number: 43828
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