Iron Face. The Adventures of Jack Frazer: Frontier Warrior, Scout, and Hunter. A Narrative Recorded by "Walker-in-the-Pines" (Henry Hastings Sibley)
first edition
1950 · Chicago
by Frazer, Jack
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1950 First book edition. One of 500 copies. First printed serially in the 1860's in a Minnesota newspaper. Edited with an introduction and notes by Theodore C. Blegen and Sarah A. Davidson. Foreword by Stanley Vestal. xiii, [1], 206pp. Frontis portrait. Extensive notes. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt. Bookplate. A very fine copy. With the bookplate of author, John M. Carroll, signed. Frazer was a famous Sioux halfbreed. His memoirs are here recorded by General Sibley, a man who had known the Sioux firsthand for many years both in war and peace and who was well acquainted with Frazer. Much on the Black Hawk War and the Minnesota Massacre. Includes an excellent introduction by Stanley Vestal. Original announcement laid in (noting the limitation).. (Inventory #: 8060)