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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Atwater, Caleb. Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City, in 1829.

WITH A SIOUX GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Atwater, Caleb. Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City, in 1829. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, worn; lacks free endpapers, catalog description tipped to front pastedown, browning, small hole in title leaf not affecting text; inscriptions of early owners on title page. Columbus, OH: Jenkins & Glover, 1831

  • Notes: first edition. "The real object of his tour was to procure . . . a cession of the title of the Winnebago, Pottawatomie, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians . . . The greater part of the work is devoted therefore to a narration of the peculiarities of those tribes"--Field 74. Howes A739; Sabin 2335.
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