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Traits of American Indian life & character, by a fur trader.
- Title
- Traits of American Indian life & character, by a fur trader.
- Author
- Ogden, Peter Skene, 1790-1854
- Publication
- San Francisco, The Grabhorn Press, 1933.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | US 10260.30 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 6 p. ℓ., 107 p. VI pl. (incl. front.); 30 cm.
- Series Statement
- Rare Americana series. no. 9
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Specimens
- Note
- The author was a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company in British Columbia and Washington, 1835-1854.
- "The original edition published in London in 1853 was issued without plates."--Pref., signed: Douglas S. Watson, editor.
- "Illustrations [are] from Father De Smet's Missions de l'Oregon et voyages aux montagnes Rocheuses, Gand, 1848."--3d prelim. leaf.
- Indexed In (note)
- Heller & Magee. Bib. Grabhorn Press,
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Experience of the Indian character -- The Red Feather, Flathead chief -- The burial of the dead and the living -- An Indian festival -- A tale of Western Caledonia -- The bloody tragedy -- Intermittent fever -- A Western Caledonian feast -- The Great Dalles of the Columbia -- The unfortunate daughter -- The Shewappe murder -- The storm-The mother's grave -- The suicide's cross -- The death of our favourite donkey -- The London packet
- LCCN
- ^^^35004989^
- OCLC
- 631255
- SCSB-11565655
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library