Title: Memoirs, Official and Personal; with Sketches of Travels among the Northern and Southern Indians; Embracing a War Excursion, and Descriptions of Scenes Along the Western Borders Author: McKenney, Thomas L. Place: New York Publisher: Paine and Burgess Date: 1846 Description: 2 volumes in 1. viii, [17]-340; vi, [9]-136 pp. Errata slip not present. With 13 plates including facsimile letter and hand-colored portrait of Pocahontas. (8vo) original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. First Edition. Travels in the Midwest and South by the co-author of the great illustrated work on the North American Indians, plus accounts of political life in Washington, and other matters. Clark, Travels in the Old South III 70, notes the work "Contains an account of a trip in September and October, 1827... He traveled by steamboat from St. Louis to Memphis, thence overland into northern Mississippi where he held a council with the Chickasaws, through the Choctaw country, and back to Washington by way of Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and Alabama. Has a good description of the currents, snags, sawyers, and other obstructions to navigation in the Mississippi River; also some descriptive material relating to the Indians in particular and to some particular chiefs." McKenney's stories of political life in Washington during the administrations of Monroe, Adams, and Jackson strikingly illustrate the corruption in governmental contracts and the working of the spoils system under Jackson. Part two represents lectures on the Indians. Field 993; Graff 2628; Howes M130. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends chipped, repair to front joint, endpapers renewed; foxing; very good. Item number: 282686
Title: Memoirs, Official and Personal; with Sketches of Travels among the Northern and Southern Indians; Embracing a War Excursion, and Descriptions of Scenes Along the Western Borders Author: McKenney, Thomas L. Place: New York Publisher: Paine and Burgess Date: 1846 Description: 2 volumes in 1. viii, [17]-340; vi, [9]-136 pp. Errata slip not present. With 13 plates including facsimile letter and hand-colored portrait of Pocahontas. (8vo) original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. First Edition. Travels in the Midwest and South by the co-author of the great illustrated work on the North American Indians, plus accounts of political life in Washington, and other matters. Clark, Travels in the Old South III 70, notes the work "Contains an account of a trip in September and October, 1827... He traveled by steamboat from St. Louis to Memphis, thence overland into northern Mississippi where he held a council with the Chickasaws, through the Choctaw country, and back to Washington by way of Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and Alabama. Has a good description of the currents, snags, sawyers, and other obstructions to navigation in the Mississippi River; also some descriptive material relating to the Indians in particular and to some particular chiefs." McKenney's stories of political life in Washington during the administrations of Monroe, Adams, and Jackson strikingly illustrate the corruption in governmental contracts and the working of the spoils system under Jackson. Part two represents lectures on the Indians. Field 993; Graff 2628; Howes M130. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends chipped, repair to front joint, endpapers renewed; foxing; very good. Item number: 282686
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