A Hopi child is torn from his parents and sent off to boarding school; white settlers encroach on the Cheyenne reservation, and the Cheyenne vow to fight to the death rather than give up their land; Howling Wolf witnesses the brutal murder of his brother and, when he protests, is in turn brutalized; after Sitting Bull's triumph over Custer's forces, he vows to fight to the death rather than submit to the white invaders. In these and other stories written from 1890-1905, Hamlin Garland sought to capture his vision of the ...
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A Hopi child is torn from his parents and sent off to boarding school; white settlers encroach on the Cheyenne reservation, and the Cheyenne vow to fight to the death rather than give up their land; Howling Wolf witnesses the brutal murder of his brother and, when he protests, is in turn brutalized; after Sitting Bull's triumph over Custer's forces, he vows to fight to the death rather than submit to the white invaders. In these and other stories written from 1890-1905, Hamlin Garland sought to capture his vision of the spirit of the Native American Indian in transition. Based on ten years of visits to reservations in the American West, these stories are of interest for readers today in part because they illustrate a sincere and well-intentioned white reformer coming to understand a culture radically at odds with his own--and discovering in the process that his own culture is less "advanced" than he had supposed.
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Illustr by Frederic Remington, 12.5 x 9, cloth backed boards with illustr paper label on front cover, 274 pp, covers lightly worn, spine ends lightly bumped, hinges loose, contents toned else very nice and clean in price-clipped, edge-chipped and rubbed (but still nice) dust jacket. FIRST ED ("A-X").
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Near Fine in Very Good- jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 274p. A near fine copy, the spine lettering is very slightly dull and there is a one-half inch bump and very slight tear on the fore-edge of the front cover, in a very good d.j. which has some moderate chipping at the top of the spine, a 1 1/2" tear at the top of the back panel, with a slight tear at the top edge of the back panel, a one-inch tear and a moderate chip at the bottom of the back panel, with a 1 1/2" tear with a chip at the fore-edge of the front cover, a 3/4" inch tear with a small chip at the bottom of the front panel, and a little wear at the forecorners of the covers. A note about the jacket and the book: there is a 7" x 7" color illustration of a Native-American on a horse pasted-down on the front panel and the publisher has stained the top edges orange which approximate the color of the horse. There is also a paste-down portrait of a Native-American of about 5" x 4" pasted-down on the front cover. A nice copy of this book, in a fairly nice dust jacket.