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Hardcover with dust jacket-full brown cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Sewn binding. 213 pages, with illustrations, end notes, index, and bibliography. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. CONDITION: Book FINE, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked; remainder mark (red star) on bottom of text block; DJ NEAR FINE, half-inch closed tear at top of front wrapper, light extremity wear; not clipped, protected in a clear archival (Mylar) cover. CONTENT: "This volume is a soundly-represented and imaginative study of the delegations of tribal representatives who visited Washington largely between 1800 and 1900....The diligence with which Dr. Viola pursued his research has enabled him to write a most rewarding book which captures the agonies and pleasures, successes and defeats, and humor and pathos of the delegates as they conferred with Washington's sympathetic bur mostly patronizing and diffident bureaucracy."---Journal of the West
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Fine. Book First edition. 233pp. Illustrated from photographs and facsimiles, pictorial endpapers. Brown cloth. A very fine copy in dust jacket. Explores the history of Indian delegations to Washington in defense of their tribal interests. Covers their purposes, the hardships of the trip, details of their visits, who the delegates were, etc., plus over 50 related illustrations from early photos and prints, many never before published.