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Wah'Kon-Tah; The Osage and the White Man's Road
by Mathews, John Joseph
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 13-359, [1] pp. Orange cloth with decorations and lettering in black on the front board and spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Frontispiece with one fold-out diagram of the Osage Agency's Residence and eight additional full-page illustrations. Illustrated by May Todd Aaron. Hand M241. Rader 2366. A nice copy of a history of the Osage people written by a member of the Osage tribe. Mathews clearly captures the attitudes and experiences of the Osage people and their lives on the reservation. A Near Fine book with the faint odor of tobacco in a Near Fine jacket with some age darkening.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00009787
- Title
- Wah'Kon-Tah; The Osage and the White Man's Road
- Author
- Mathews, John Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1932
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Evening Star Books
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