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Hiawatha

by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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  • Hardcover
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About This Item

Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1909 208 pgs. TEG. Green cloth with full color pastedown, light rubbing to pastedown, slight spine lean. Longfellow's epic poem illustrated with a decorative border, 2-color frontis and 12 other 2-color plates by John R. Neill plus the full color cover plate. Rare in such lovely condition.. First Thus. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by John R. Neill. 8vo.

Synopsis

From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.

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Bookseller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
009728
Title
Hiawatha
Author
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Illustrator
John R. Neill
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
First Thus
Publisher
Reilly & Britton Co.
Place of Publication
Chicago
Date Published
1909
Size
8vo
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
poetry, Native american, Legends, american Indian
Bookseller catalogs
Poetry;

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About E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA

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