Author: WEEKS, Alvin G.
Title: Massasoit of the Wampanoags: With a Brief Commentary on Indian Character; and Sketches of Other Great Chiefs, Tribes and Nations: Also a Chapter on Samoset, Squanto and Hobamock, Three Early Native Friends of the Plymouth Colonists
Description: N.p. Privately Printed, 1920. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering and blind-embossed profile portrait. xi, 270pp. Frontispiece, single full-page plate. Very good. Mild binding edgewear and homely discoloration along top edge of front board, else internally tight and nice; faint floral mustiness. Attractive first edition of this account of the Wampanoag chief (1580-1661) who interacted with the English settlers of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Printed "This volume is presented to" statement from the Massasoit Memorial Association preceding half-title page bears PRINTED signatures of Weeks and one other and gives thanks for "a contribution to the fund for an erection at Plymouth, Massachusetts, of a memorial to Massasoit. .

Keywords: Native American Colonial Americana


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