Advancing the Frontier, 1830-1860
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1933.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First printing of the fourth volume in the Civilization of the American Indian series. 363 pp, with index, folding maps. Small (1/2 in.) closed tear at bottom edge of title page, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is chipped along the top edge and at the base of the spine, but remains attractive. Description (somewhat dated in tone) from the dust jacket: "This is the absorbing record of that era when the history of Western America when the thousands of Indians who had formerly lived east of the Mississippi were finding their new homes on the buffalo plains of the Osage, the Kiowa and Comanche...following their removal under the administration of President Jackson. The meeting of these Indians, who had led a peaceful, pastoral existence in the South, with the wilder, more warlike Indians of the plains, the gradual incursion of the military to keep the peace,
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