The Life and Times of Red-Jacket, or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha; Being the Sequel to the History of the Six Nations.

New York & London: Wiley and Putnam, 1841.

Price: $300.00


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First edition. Engraved titlepage and frontispiece portrait. x, [2], 484 pp. 8vo. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Wear to corners and head and foot of spine. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription on flyleaf. Lightly foxed. Partially unopened. About very good. Howes S1038; Field 1508.

Item #252053

Exhaustive biography of Chief Red Jacket. The author, William Stone, was a noted Federalist editor who owned several newspapers in Connecticut and New York. He wrote widely on historical subjects, and was especially interested in the Iroquois, publishing THE LIFE OF JOSEPH BRANT in 1838, and then the present volume devoted to Red Jacket. In addition to the life of the great Indian orator, this book contains a biography of Farmer's Brother, pp.407-19, and another of Cornplanter, pp.421-62, both celebrated chiefs of the Seneca. Though Howes calls for three plates, Field only calls for one, as in this copy, which appears to be complete as is.