The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains: A Study of Cultural Development among North American Indians
by Preston Holder
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0803258097
- ISBN 13
- 9780803258099
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press/Bison Book, 1974 University of Nebraska Press/Bison Book, Lincoln, NE. 1974. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Bison Book Printing December 1974; BB 594/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a university price stamp on the half title page. Book Condition: Very Good; light suntoning to spine and wrap peripheral edges; slight storage warping of upper outer 1/3rd of book section. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 177 pp 8vo. This book provides information essential to the understanding of the Plains Indians. The emphasis centers on two native modes of life on the Great Plains- hoe farming and hunting from horseback- with special reference to the effects of contact with the encroaching white culture. In view of the upheavals and questioning in today's society it seems particularly important that such a book as this obtain as wide and audience as possible since it helps place our present society and its problems in perspective. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013574
- Title
- The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains: A Study of Cultural Development among North American Indians
- Author
- Preston Holder
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0803258097
- ISBN 13
- 9780803258099
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press/Bison Book
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, NE
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Plains Indians, Great Plains, Indian Tribes, hoe farming, horseback hunting, North American Plains Indians, Cultural anthropology, Ethnology, sociology, history, Indian culture, nomadism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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