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This is a beautiful, fascinating, and scarce antique hardcover historical book in nice condition for the age being over 150 years old discussing aspects of Indian and American history back to the 1600s entitled “The Great Indian Chief of the West,” or “Life and Adventures of Black Hawk, by Benjamin Drake, published in 1854 by Applegate & Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, with a green cloth blindstamped hard cover, gold gilt labeling on the spine, wonderful detailed engraved illustrations / woodcuts throughout, including a frontispiece engraving / plate of the famous Native American Chief Black Hawk, with a total of 288 pages. This book is valued at $150 to over $200.Some of the names, places, events, topics, and other content discussed in this very interesting and rare old volume include the Origin of the Sac and Fox Indian Tribes, the Policy of the United States (U.S.) government regarding North American Indians / Native Americans and its contribution to the myth or perception that Indians are faithless, savage, and untameable, their right and title to land but compelled to sell, cheated out of property, and other wrongs inflicted, missionaries, Attack Upon St. Louis in 1779, Colonel George Rogers Clark, Major Thomas Forsythe’s (who resided for nearly 20 years among the Sauk and Foxes) Account of the Conquest of the Illini, Death of Chief Pontiac, the Sac and Fox Village on Rock River, Legends, Modes of Burying their Dead, Pike’s Visit in 1805, Black Hawk’s Account of the Trea ...
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