THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BLACK HAWK: WITH SKETCHES OF KEOKUK, THE SAC AND FOX INDIANS, AND THE LATE BLACK HAWK WAR
1850 · Cincinnati
by Drake, Benjami
Cincinnati: Published by E. Morgan & Co., 1850. 288pp. plus woodcut plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Head and toe of spine frayed, binding cocked. Scattered foxing, heavy at times. Some minor dampstains. Overall good. Later edition (after the first of 1838) of this well known Indian biography, styled on the titlepage, "7th edition - improved." Points the finger at the white man for contributing to the bad relations with Indians and calls for "a more liberal, upright and benevolent course of policy towards [the Indians]." HOWES D459. (Inventory #: WRCAM25179)