Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims.
Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co., 1883. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2354595
First edition. Former library copy, usual marks. Spine toned, boards lightly soiled, rear free endpaper removed, pages lightly toned. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
268 pp. A firsthand account of interactions between Native Americans of the Piute tribe in what is now Nevada and white settlers. Her family scattered to California to escape the resulting conflicts. Contents include: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites; Domestic and Social Moralities; Wars and Their Causes; Captain Truckee's Death; Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes; The Malheur Agency; The Bannock War; The Yakima Affair; Appendix.
Price: $600.00