Author: de MILFORD, Louis LeClerc
Title: Memoir or a Cursory Glance at My Different Travels & My Sojourn in the Creek Nation
Description: Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1956. Hardcover. Translated by Geraldine De Courcy. Edited by John Francis McDermott. 16mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. lvi, 257pp. Map frontispiece, map. Top edge gilt. Very good. Externally pristine and tight, with text block a bit wrinkled. Attractive copy of the 54th title in R.R. Donnelley & Sons annual keepsake "Lakeside Classics" series of historical reprints -- this title first published in Paris in 1802. Milford (1752-ca. 1820) was a French adventurer and military officer who led the Creek Indians during the American Revolutionary War and traveled throughout present-day Alabama. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .

Keywords: Native American


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