Weiga of Temagami And Other Indian Tales 1908 Cy Warman ~ stories of the Cree and Ojibwe/Ojibway ~ Lake Temagami, Ontario ~ Native American

Title: Weiga of Temagami And Other Indian Tales
Author: Cy Warman
Publication: Toronto: McLeod & Allen, 1908

Description: First (Canadian) Edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering, with front cover showing a decorative pattern stamped in white, olive green and black. Spine a bit darkened. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate (belonging to a President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) and name on front endpapers, else interior clean. Pages with decorated borders; vignette drawings at the beginning and close of each chapter. 16 illustrated plates, mostly photographs, including frontispiece portrait of the author (with tissue guard). 206 pages.

Twenty-four stories of North American Indians, presented by Cyrus Clarence Warman (1855-1914). Warman was a native of Illinois, a journalist, and best-selling author, who was known during his life as "The Poet Laureate of the Rockies." The tales typically concern to the Ojibway and Cree, with several set in the region around Lake Temagami in Ontario, Canada.

The previous owners were George Harvey Davis (1876-1955), a farmer and banker of Kansas City, Missouri, who served as the President of the United States Chamber of Commerce from 1937 to 1940, and his wife Elizabeth ''Betty'' Otterman Davis (1878-1962). The address on the front free endpaper, 3669 Jefferson Street, was their address in Kansas City as recorded in the 1910 census.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG+

Keywords: Native American, George Harvey Davis, George H. Davis, Ojibway, Ojibwe, Cree, Lake Temagami, Ontario, Canada, stories,