MEMOIRS OF A CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA; from childhood to the age of nineteen; with anecdotes descriptive of the manners and customs. To which is added, some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions of the territory westward of the Mississippi

HUNTER, John Dunn

Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1823

About this Item

8vo, pp. [x,] 447. Bound in later 19th century paper boards & 3/4 rubbed leather on the spine. A very nice clean copy. Ayer 142; Howes H-813; Sabin 33921; Wagner-Camp 24:2; Field 743; Decker 42-150. This is a narrative of a captivity among the Osage in Kansas and Hunter's journey across the mountains to the Columbia River. For many years this narrative was attacked as a fiction, but Richard Drinnon, in his "White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter" (1972) makes a strong case for its authenticity. The work includes much information about medicine as practiced by the Native Americans.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MEMOIRS OF A CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA; from childhood to the age of nineteen; with anecdotes descriptive of the manners and customs. To which is added, some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions of the territory westward of the Mississippi
• Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London
• Publication Date: 1823
• Edition: First UK Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Indians
  • Americana