Life Among the Indians or: The Captivity of the Oatman Girls among the Apache & Mohave Indians Containing also: An interesting account of the Massacre of the Oatman Family by the Apache Indians in 1851; the narrow escape of Lorenzo D. Oatman; the Capture Olive A. and Mary A. Oatman; the Death by Starvation of the latter; the Five Years' Suffering and Captivity of Olive A. Oatman; also, her singular recapture in 1856; as given by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman to the author
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935. Hardcover. [viii] 209p., frontispiece, introductions, very good limited edition of 550 copies designed and printed by the Grabhorn Press, May, 1935. The illustrations are engraved on wood by Mallette Dean. Bound in decorative orange boards with olive cloth backing. orange paper title label on spine, mild offsetting to endpapers, in plain olive publisher's shipping dj with minor edgewear and short closed tear at head of spine. Number Two of the Third Series of Rare Americana.
Cat.No: 211061
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