Title: History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians
Author: Cushman, H[oratio] B.
Description: 607 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph, tissue-guard. 8¾x5½, original blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Cushman's parents were missionaries to the Choctaw in the 1820's and, as Howes notes, "The author lived among these tribes from 1820 to 1890." The book is printed on cheap paper, and the contents of the present copy are browned and brittle, as is inevitable, but not chipped or torn. With rubberstamp of Tejas Club library, presented by Mike Hogg, on front free endpaper. Howes C976.
Heading: Place Published: Greenville, TX
Publisher: Headlight Printing House
Date Published: 1899
Author: Cushman, H[oratio] B.
Description: 607 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph, tissue-guard. 8¾x5½, original blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Cushman's parents were missionaries to the Choctaw in the 1820's and, as Howes notes, "The author lived among these tribes from 1820 to 1890." The book is printed on cheap paper, and the contents of the present copy are browned and brittle, as is inevitable, but not chipped or torn. With rubberstamp of Tejas Club library, presented by Mike Hogg, on front free endpaper. Howes C976.
Heading: Place Published: Greenville, TX
Publisher: Headlight Printing House
Date Published: 1899
Condition report
Spine and edges a bit sunned, light soiling; front hinges starting to crack, tissue-guard chipped; very good or better, a very perishable book rarely found so nice.
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Americana - Travel & Exploration
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