BUCKSKIN AND BLANKET DAYS: Memoirs of a friend of the Indians.
Written in 1905 by Thomas Henry Tibbles. [Manuscript edited by Theodora Bates Cogswell]. Pp. 336; demy 8vo; straw-coloured boards, spine lettered in red & black; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel faintly soiled; Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1957. *"In Bleeding Kansas in 1856, a young abolitionist soldier named Thomas Henry Tibbles was captured by the pro-slavery Border Ruffians and sentenced to death by hanging. He was not yet sixteen. . . Half a century later, by then the editor of a well-known newspaper and a noted authority on the American Indians, Tibbles set down his memoirs of the years between' [wrapper blurb]. Item #174899
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