REMARKS MADE ON A TOUR TO PRAIRIE DU CHIEN; THENCE TO WASHINGTON CITY, IN 1829.
Atwater, Caleb:
Columbus, Oh.: Printed by Jenkins and Grover, 1831. 296pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Small scrape on upper front hinge. Bit tanned, some minor foxing. Otherwise a pleasing, very good copy, with autograph of the author tipped to the front pastedown. A scarce and important early midwestern travel account with a Sioux language grammar, and good descriptions of the tribes inhabiting the area that became Wisconsin and Illinois. "Some very curious particulars relating to Customs of the Winnebagos are related by Atwater. Although nothing indicating the mission of Atwater appears on the title, yet the real object of his tour was to procure as Commissioner of the government, a cession of the title of the Winnebago, Pottawatomie, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians, in the rich mineral lands, now forming the State of Wisconsin and part of Illinois. Much the greater part of the work is devoted therefore to a narration of the peculiarities of those tribes which he visited, biography of some of their chiefs, Indian poetry, specimens of their language, and incidents of his associations with them" - Field. HOWES A379. THOMSON 49. BUCK 213. SABIN 2335. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5818. FIELD 54. PILLING, SIOUAN, pp.2-3.
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