"Of The Crow Nation"

DENIG, EDWIN THOMPSON [EDITED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND FOOTNOTES BY JOHN C. EWERS]

Publication: Government Printing Office, 1953, Washington

First edition. 8vo. Dark gray printed wrappers, 74 [6] pp., introduction, illustrated, plates, map, bibliography. Anthropological Papers No. 33 of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology. Much on the life and works of Edwin Thompson Denig, especially his experience in the fur trade. The Crow Nation is presented with their characteristics, intertribal relations, population and major divisions, their ceremonies, dangers encountered with them in the fur trade, and much, much more. The map details the Crow Country of 1855. Also biographical information on many Crow leaders. Stamped on the title page "From your congressman E. Ross Adair, 4th Dist. Indiana" else a fine, bright copy.

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