RACHAEL PLUMMER'S NARRATIVE OF TWENTY-ONE MONTHS SERVITUDE AS A PRISONER AMONG THE COMANCHEE INDIANS
by [Plummer, Rachael]
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About This Item
Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1977. [31]pp. Publisher's half brown cloth and tan paper- covered boards, spine and front cover gilt. Mild sunning to spine, else near fine. A limited edition, being a photographic facsimile of the first Indian captivity narrative printed in the state of Texas. Seventeen-year-old Rachael Plummer was kidnapped by raiding Comanches in 1836, and this is her own account of her "all and every trouble." With a Preface by Archibald Hanna and an Introduction by William S. Reese. Number 367 of 400 copies signed by Hanna and Reese on the limitation page.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
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- Title
- RACHAEL PLUMMER'S NARRATIVE OF TWENTY-ONE MONTHS SERVITUDE AS A PRISONER AMONG THE COMANCHEE INDIANS
- Author
- [Plummer, Rachael]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jenkins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1977
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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