Tracking Doctor Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ISBN 13: 9780864923561

Goose Lane Editions. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Goose Lane Editions. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Goose Lane Editions, 2002-09-19. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

Goose Lane Editions, 2002-09-19. First Edition. paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Tracking Dr. Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper, by Ruth Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum ethnologist, is a book that includes the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud, a Mi'kmaw hunter, healer, and showman. Co-published by Goose Lane Editions and the Nova Scotia Museum, the book offers to readers, for the first time, the earliest known Mi'kmaw memoir. Jerry Lonecloud was born Germain Laksi, on 4 July 1852 in Belfast, Maine, to Mi'kmaw parents from Nova Scotia. As a youth, he lived in Vermont. Orphaned at the age of fourteen, he set out on a two-year adventure to bring his two brothers and one sister back to Nova Scotia. Trained in the use of herbal medicine by his parents, Laski fell easily into the role of Doctor Lonecloud in the American medicine shows of the 1880s, including Healey and Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and his own company, the Kiowa Medicine Show, for which he made the medicines. During the rest of his… Read More

Goose Lane Editions, 2002-09-19. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Halifax, 2002; illustrated paper covers; mild corner wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 183 pages.

Goose Lane Editions, 2002-09-19. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!