Vendeur : Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. B/W Drawings and Photographs (illustrateur). First Thus. SUBTITLED : ` Warrior Chief '. Red Crow was an important chief of the Blood tribe, within the Blackfoot nation, during the transitional time when the buffalo disappeared from the plains and Indians were relegated to reserves. 259 pages of TEXT assisted by b/w drawings, b/w photographs, and TWO MAPS. Learn more about : Belly Buttes, Singing Before, Sweetgrass and Cypress Hills, Indian Agent Pocklington, and Sergeant F.W. Spicer, motokix, Big Plume and Big Snake, Many Spotted Horses, Fort Sarpy and Fort Whoop-Up, as well as the distinctions between stealing and capturing. Cond : Paper wrapper is off-white in colour with burgundy lettering. Front cover graphic is a photo portrait of Red Crow - circa1895. Volume is tight, and bright, clean and square. No edge chips. Not sun-faded. No tears, stains, names, creases, nor marks. Excellent collectible copy ! ! Quote (p. 97) : " After the meeting, the Bloods scattered into small bands to find winter quarters where they could hunt buffalo. Medicine Calf took his band north to the Highwood River, while Running Rabbit led twenty-seven lodges south of the line to Medicine Lodge Creek. The remainder camped along the Belly, with neither ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. N° de réf. du vendeur 013910
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