Winona: a Dakota Legend and Other Poems

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. First Edition. Small octavo. Publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; vi,[1]-176pp. Slight external wear, including some mild rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Internally tight and sound, with some marginalia to Contents page and some ink graffiti to rear blanks and endpapers. Early ownership signature ("Helen Madzik") to front pastedown. Easily Very Good.

Huggins, a Medal of Honor winner, served more than 40 years in the Army, retiring in 1903 as a Brigadier General. The title work is a long narrative poem, heavy on Native American symbolic elements, with a Great Plains setting. (Inventory #: 60870)