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[INDIAN CAPTIVITY]. BARBER, Miss, wife of "Squatting Bear." The True Narrative of the Five Years' Suffering & Perilous Adventures by Miss Barber. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., [1873].
8o (231 x 145 mm). Full-page wood engravings in text. (Some occasional pale foxing, few marginal repairs.) Original blue pictorial wrappers (repairs to spine, some spotting); green quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. "Probably as spurious as are the medical remedies contained." After years of travail in the Dakota country among her husband's tribesmen, and hardships which culminated, practically speaking, in escape from an intolerable captivity, a presumably sadder but wiser--and didactic--Miss Barber warns other young women not to take the course of a "silly girl" in wishing to reform the Indian. Ayer Supplement 126; Howes B-116; Vaughan 47.
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FIRST EDITION. "Probably as spurious as are the medical remedies contained." After years of travail in the Dakota country among her husband's tribesmen, and hardships which culminated, practically speaking, in escape from an intolerable captivity, a presumably sadder but wiser--and didactic--Miss Barber warns other young women not to take the course of a "silly girl" in wishing to reform the Indian. Ayer Supplement 126; Howes B-116; Vaughan 47.