The Scalp Hunters: Abenaki Ambush at Lovewell Pond, 1725

Alfred E. Kayworth; Raymond G. Potvin

ISBN 10: 0828320756 / ISBN 13: 9780828320757

Published by Branden Pub Co, Boston, MA, 2014

About this Item

First edition 2002, first printing , no previous printings listed. Signed by Author - Raymond G. Potvin- on the title page without inscription and without names. Trade softcover without DJ as issued. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, spine not creased, sharp corners, no markings o any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. 8vo, 276 pages, illustrated , bibliography, index.

Seller Inventory # 016862

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Scalp Hunters: Abenaki Ambush at Lovewell Pond, 1725
• Publisher: Branden Pub Co, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0828320756
• ISBN 13: 9780828320757
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Traffic in human scalps was part of the Colonial economy, an activity that was avidly pursued by Indians, by the French and by the English, whether in New England, in New York or Canada. Parisians were especially intrigued by scalps produced by Chief Escumbuit, who claimed more than one hundred of them—mostly English; he was the only American Indian to have been knighted by the French King over that feat. Ironically, these hunters of human hair were considered Noble Savages by many enlightened Europeans who memorialized them for their pristine and advanced civilized humanity. For, they “were born free, and the Europeans bound them in chains.”