The American Indian - Special Edition for Young Readers

Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Press - Western Publishing Company, Inc.. Seventh Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8 1/2" X 11 1/2. 213 Pages Indexed. This is a 1974 Seventh Printing. Very light wear to foot of spine. No other defects noted to this beautiful book with linen boards and map endpapers. This is a pictorial history of Native Americans by anthropologist Oliver La Farge author of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Laughing Boy. The text is based on the author's Pictorial History of the American Indian published by Crown Publishers, Inc. in 1956. This edition was especially prepared for young readers. Lavishly illustrated with color photos, archival prints, contemporary art, and specially commissioned paintings by Andre Durenceau on every page. Lucid and thorough presentation and highly rewarding for adult readers as well. Contents in Eleven Chapters: They Discovered America, The Kings of the South, The Iroquoians, The Wigwam People, The Western Farmers, The old Settlers, he Great Open Spaces, Behind the Shining Mountains, The Eagle the Raven and the Whale, Ghosts and Visions, and the Non-Vanishing Americans.