Title: Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians in North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen: with Anecdotes Descriptive of their Manners and Customs. To Which is Added, Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi Author: Hunter, John Dunn Place: London Publisher: Longman, Hurst, et al Date: 1823 Description: ix, 448 pp. 21x12.5 cm. (8¼x4¾"), later half calf & marbled boards. First English Edition. The accuracy of this narrative of John Dunn Hunter (c. 1797-1828) has always been hotly debated. He wrote of being seized by Kickapoo Indians at such an early age that he remembered nothing of his family, of being traded from tribe to tribe, and of growing up as a full-fledged warrior, until he returned to the white settlements in 1816 to seek an education. Lionized in London during the winter of 1823-1824, he later returned to America, where he was murdered by Cherokees during a complex boundary dispute in Texas in 1828. See Graff 2019; Howes H813; Sabin 33921; Streeter Sale 4237; Wagner-Camp 24:2. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better, with armorial bookplate of Viscount Gage. Item number: 226955
Title: Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians in North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen: with Anecdotes Descriptive of their Manners and Customs. To Which is Added, Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi Author: Hunter, John Dunn Place: London Publisher: Longman, Hurst, et al Date: 1823 Description: ix, 448 pp. 21x12.5 cm. (8¼x4¾"), later half calf & marbled boards. First English Edition. The accuracy of this narrative of John Dunn Hunter (c. 1797-1828) has always been hotly debated. He wrote of being seized by Kickapoo Indians at such an early age that he remembered nothing of his family, of being traded from tribe to tribe, and of growing up as a full-fledged warrior, until he returned to the white settlements in 1816 to seek an education. Lionized in London during the winter of 1823-1824, he later returned to America, where he was murdered by Cherokees during a complex boundary dispute in Texas in 1828. See Graff 2019; Howes H813; Sabin 33921; Streeter Sale 4237; Wagner-Camp 24:2. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better, with armorial bookplate of Viscount Gage. Item number: 226955
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