Boy In The Wild West

DR. L. DEVORE

Publication: Appeal Publishing Company, 1902, Girard, Kansas

First edition. 12mo. Tan cloth, decorated front and rear endpapers, titles stamped in brown on the front cover, 63 pp., frontispiece [photograph of the author], preface, introduction, illustrated from three photographs and one small ink drawing. The photographs are of three Indians of the Sac Fox tribe, Chocknomey, Jay Bird, and Kenasaw. An account of a family that traveled overland from Ohio to Iowa in the 1840s. Much on the Indians of the area with some mention of the Sioux massacre in Minnesota. This book is not located in the usual references, nor in auctions or listed copies. This copy has the inked stamp in colors on a front fly leaf that reads "Leonard DeVore, Ponca, Nebraska, Dec. 30, 1902." There is also an inked inscription beneath the name and date that we assume is written by a former owner. Overall a very good copy.