History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner
by SHARP, Abigail Gardner
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Co, 1971. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering and pictorial stamping. 386pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Much, much later facsimile reprint of one of the most famed of all Indian captivity narratives, first published in Des Moines in 1885. The Spirit Lake Massacre was a noted 1856 incident in which a small group of Sioux in northwestern Iowa attacked and killed 35 to 40 white settlers and kidnapped four young women, including 14-year-old Gardner. AYER 263. HOWES S 330.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43828
- Title
- History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner
- Author
- SHARP, Abigail Gardner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Wallace-Homestead Book Co
- Place of Publication
- Des Moines, IA
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Native American;
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