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HARDCOVER. Condizione: Good. Rebound Hardcover Edition. Octavo rebound hardcover with blue cloth boards; 382 pp.; b/w plates. Tight binding, clean throughout. Severe fading to spine and front board perimeter; front gutter starting behind title page. Good. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 115.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Softcover. 1st. 8vo. 382pp. 48 plates after aketches by Kurz, mostly of Native Americans. Index. Original green wraps. A very good copy (spine lightly worn and darkened). Fur trader, accomplished artist and eye-witness to a number of historically important events during the mid-19th century, Kurz here gives an account of his experiences among fur traders and American Indians on the Mississippi and the Upper Missouri rivers during the years 1846 to 1852. "Kurz both saw and recorded with remarkable vitality. One of the most readable and illuminating of western journals." - Dobie pg. 87. (Graff 2359; Howes K281; Thrapp pg. 798). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 115pp. Green wrappers, ix, 382pp, [48] plates, light sunning on lower half of title-page, small smudge on lower front cover, spine sunned and creased down middle, with wear on ends. Near Fine. A Swiss artist and ethnographer, Rudolph Kurz (1818-1871) traveled through the American West, documenting traditional life ways of the Crow, Sioux, and Cheyenne tribes and their culture, prior to the American Civil War. Kurz traveled form New Orleans to St. Louis and Fort Union, and was sometimes employed as a clerk at Fort Union and Berthold, and makes observational comments on the gold rush and Mexican-American War.A valuable diary of Indian Life.