Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 353

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WEST.) The Gloria Patri, Creed, and Lord's Prayer in the Yankton Dialect of the Dakota. Broadside, 6 x 4 1/2 inches; 2 creases, faint ink smudge. [Yankton Agency, DT: Mission Press, 1870?]

Additional Details

One other copy known, at the Huntington Library, where it is credited to the Santee Agency circa 1871 based on the typeface. However, this example was found accompanying the 1870 '"Prayers to Indian Missions" from Yankton Agency, DT, which was printed with identical paper and type. Nebraska Imprints 218.