(AMERICAN INDIANS) Joseph Kossuth Dixon The Vanishing Race T

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INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS PATRON (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Joseph Kossuth Dixon. The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council. Map plate, 80 rich sepia-toned photogravure plates after photographs by Dixon. cii, 239 pages. 4to, contemporary presentation binding in gilt morocco, rejointed, dampstaining and wear to backstrip; minimal wear to contents; 1926 gift inscription by author on front flyleaf. Philadelphia: National American Indian Memorial Association Press, 1925

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"Third and revised edition" of a book documenting a 1909 gathering of tribal leaders on the Little Bighorn River in Montana which featured several survivors of the Custer battle. The original expedition was underwritten by department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker, who held the copyright on both the text and photographs. This copy was personally inscribed by Dixon to his benefactor: "To Rodman Wanamaker, whose great soul has made him the pathfinder to the soul of the Indian. Affectionately, the author, Joseph Kossuth Dixon."