Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux - A Biography by Stanley Vestal SIGNED 1st Edition Hardcover 1932 Houghton Mifflin Company

Title: Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux - A Biography

Author: Stanley Vestal

Description: First Edition (SD). Inscribed and dated by the author on the front paste down. Bound in burgundy cloth with Sitting Bull's signature and buffalo design in gilt on front board. Heavy wear at head and foot of spine and corners. Rear board's cloth shows signs of bubbling. Gilt rubbed from spine. Book plate on front paste down. Previous owner's humorous note on half-title page. Six b/w plates including portrait frontis. Bibliography. Index.

Stanley Vestal (1887-1957) was a long-time resident of Oklahoma and a prolific author, professor, historian, as who was also that state's first Rhodes Scholar. This is his biography of the great Lakota chief who led his people in a resistance against the United States government.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Place: Boston

Year: 1932

ISBN: n/a

Language: English

Size: 8.25" x 5.75".

Pages: xvi, 350 pp.

Keywords: biography, Indian, Native American, Plains Indians, Great Plains, history,