[Native Americans, Black Hawk, Treaties, Indians]. Black Hawk. Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk, Embracing the Traditions of His Mation, Various Wars in which He has been Engaged, and His Account of the Cause and General History of the Black Hawk War of 1832; His Surrender, and Travels Through the United States. Dictated by Himself. Antoine LeClair, U. S. Interpreter. J. B. Patterson, Editor and Amenuensis. Rock, Island Illinois, 1833. Also, Life, Death and Burial of the Old Chief, Together with a History of the Black Hawk War, by J. B. Patterson, Oquawka, Illinois, 1882. Saint Louis. Continential Printing Press. 1882. First Edition. 208pp.
Good + in original blind and gold embossed pebbled cloth; attractive with spine a bit dulled and corners bumped and rubbed through. Front hinge through paper to mull, but very sound. Rear the same, but shaken. Textually very good with toning as shown.
