Moment jack (2 resultados)

Cloth. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a nonfiction historical Native American biography called Red Jacket, Last of the Seneca, copyright 1952, possible first edition with no other date found, hard cover, no dust jacket, written by Arthur C. Parker, and drawings by Jack Moment. The book is in fair condition with usual library markings, beginnings of a front hinge crack, pages browning due to age, otherwise a good reading copy with 228 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jack Moment (ilustrador). …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Bison Book Edition. Paperback. Red Jacket. Slight foxing to edge. Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Thomas S. Abler. This is the story of the famous and controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, ca 1750-1830), whose passionate and articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many but also earned him the enmity of Chiefs Joseph Brant and Cornplanter. Red Jacket received a medal from Geroge Washington as a toekn of friendship. He is remembered as a vocal and persistent opponent of foreign encroachment on the Iroquois, protesting bitterly against the sale of tribal lands and involvement in European-American disoutes, missionary activities, and various efforts to 'civilize' the Iroquois. The authorm, a renoqed scholar of the Iroguois and a member of the distinguished Seneca family, offers an engaging and highly readable account of Red Jacket's life. The biography follows Red Jacket from his early years along the Genesee River, through the invasion of Seneca lands during the Revolutionary War, the Big Tree Treaty of 1797, and the rise of the prophet Handsome Lake Parker (1881-1955) has authored several books on the Iroquois. 228 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Jack Moment (ilustrador).…