Sammelband comprising two works, bequeathed by Transcendentalist Ellery Channing to historian of Transcendentalism and supporter of John Brown, F.B. Sanborn. Inscription on a preliminary in Sanborn’s hand reading: “F.B. Sanborn 1901, Bought by Ellery Channing of D.C. Colesworthy in Boston, Bequeathed by E.C. to F.B.S. 1901.” Further inscribed by Sanborn.....
A thorough review of the facts, including excerpts of sworn statements from two Native people, in a case one scholar has called “an American Indian Dreyfus Affair.” On April 28, 1897 a white sheep herder named John Hoover was shot while tending his flock on the banks of the Tongue.....
An Indian Rights Association pamphlet reproducing a letter by Prof. C. C. Painter, the representative of the IRA at Washington, addressing a “grave and pitiable” state of affairs concerning the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian Reservations: “Three hundred thousand acres of land has been snatched from peaceable and well-disposed Indians.....
The first edition of this important book on the culture of the Penobscot people of Maine. Joseph Nicolar, a Penobscot author, undertook in this work, as he states in his preface, to answer the question “where did the red man come from?” and to “remove the fear that the life.....