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Life, Letters and Speeches: George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh)
by A LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Donald B Smith (editors) [George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh)]
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0803214707
- ISBN 13
- 9780803214705
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About This Item
ix+255 pages with bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. George Copway, a Canadian Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe village of his youth to the halls of state legislatures throughout the eastern United States and eventually overseas. Copway converted t Methodism as a teenager and traveled throughout the Midwest as a missionary. He became a forceful and energetic spokesman for temperance and the rights and sovereignty of Indians, lecturing to large crowds in the United States and Europe and found a newspaper devoted to native issues. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS003133
- Title
- Life, Letters and Speeches: George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh)
- Author
- A LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Donald B Smith (editors) [George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh)]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0803214707
- ISBN 13
- 9780803214705
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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