Publisher's Synopsis
Title: Biography and history of the Indians of North America: comprising a general account of them and details in the lives of all the most distinguished chiefs and others who have been noted among the various Indian nations upon the continent: also, a history of their wars, their manners and customs, and the most celebrated speeches of their orators, from their first being known to Europeans to the present time: likewise exhibiting an analysis of the most distinguished as well as absurd authors who have written upon the great question of the first peopling of America.
Author: Samuel Gardner Drake
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP04436100
CollectionID: CTRG03-B712
PublicationDate: 18350101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Added, engr. t. p.: The book of the Indians of North America. Includes indexes.
Collation: vii, 28, 120, 132, 72, 158, 18, 12, [8] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; 23 cm
