$130.00
Title: Tragedy of the Wahk-shum: Prelude to the Yakima Indian War, 1855-1856 / The Killing of [Indian Agent] Major Andrew J. Bolon / Eyewitness Accounty by Su-el-lil, Locating the Place of Bolon's Death and Indian Legends. Addendum: Definition of ''Yakima.
Author: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter / Introduction by H. D. [Heister Dean] Guie
Description: Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. One of 750 copies. Spine worn and tape stains to covers. Rear cover and last few leaves are loose. 11 illustrations and fold-out map. pp. 44, [3]. 22.2 x 15 cm.
Inscribed ''To / Hellen McKelvie / From / Lucullus V. McWhorter / Mad Moon, 6th Sun, / 1940 snows - ''.
A scarce copy of the original 1937 edition. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter (1860-1944) was a rancher and advocate for Native Americans who studied and wrote about tribes in West Virginia and Washington state. In 1903 he moved to from Ohio to Yakima and in 1914 was adopted as an honorary member of the Yakama.
Binding: Soft cover/wraps
Condition: Fair
Publisher: Privately Published By L. V. McWhorter
Place: Yakima, Washington
Year: 1937
Keywords: Yakama, Native Americans, Washington state, history, Andrew Bolon, Indian Affairs,
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