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Author: Hunter, John Dunn
Title: Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians in North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen
Place Published: London
Publisher:Longman, Hurst, et al
Date Published: 1824
Description:

vii, 468 pp. Illustrated with lithograph frontispiece portrait stonecut by C.R. Leslie. (8vo) 21.2x13 cm (8¼x5"), bound in quarter leather with brown marbled boards, gilt rule, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Third Edition.

Revised later edition of John Hunter's narrative. The accuracy of this story has always been hotly debated. He wrote of being seized by Kickapoo Indians at such an early age that he remembered nothing of his family, of being traded from tribe to tribe, and of growing up as a full-fledged warrior, until he returned to the white settlements in 1816 to seek an education. Lionized in London during the winter of 1823-1824, he later returned to America, where he was murdered by Cherokees during a complex boundary dispute in Texas in 1828. Ownership signature of previous owner on title, penciled marks on blank leaves.

Touches of wear to cloth and leather; marginal toning and occasional smudging, text clean throughout; very good.