Author: SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON (SIGNED); SETON, JULIA M. (SIGNED)
Title: The Gospel of the Red Man - an Indian Bible
Description: New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Signed, without inscription, by Ernest and Julia Seton upon half-title page. "In 1905 a strange East Indian woman said to Ernest Seton 'Don't you know who you are? You are a Red Indian Chief, reincarnated to give the message of the Red man to the White race, so much in need of it. Why don't you set about your job?' Therefore, after years of research, he has deemed it his duty and his privilege to compile the results of his labors into [this] concrete message." - Foreword. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) was an English-born Canadian-American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. Seton also influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting movement. He is responsible for the appropriation and incorporation of what he believed to be American Indian elements into the traditions of the Boy Scouts of America." - Wikipedia. Reprint of the 1936 first edition. xii, [2],120 pages. Tight and unmarked with average wear to original orange cloth. No dust jacket. A sound signed example of this treasured work.; Sm 8vo; Signed by Author. Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Mythology North Religion Native Peoples