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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09
by Arnold, Mary E., and Reed, Mabel
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0803267037
- ISBN 13
- 9780803267039
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
University of Nebraska Press, 1980. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. In 1908 two young womenâthe authors of this bookâaccepted Indian Service appointments as field matrons for the Karok Indians in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. Although the area had been the scene of a gold rush some fifty years earlier, they write in the foreword, "the social life of the Indianâwhat he believed and the way he felt about thingsâwas very little affected by white influence. The older Indians still had the spaced tatoo marks on their forearms, by which they could measure the length of the string of wampum required to buy a wife. . . . The white men we knew on the Rivers were pioneers of the Old West. . . . All around us was gold country, the land of the saloon and of the six-shooter. Our friends and neighbors carried guns as a matter of course, and used them on occasion. But the account given in these pages is not of these occurrences but of everyday life on the frontier in an Indian village, and what Indians and bad men did and said when they were not engaged in wiping out their friends and neighbors. It is also the account of our own two years in Indian country where, in the sixty-mile stretch between Happy Camp and Orleans, we were the only white women, and most of the time quite scared enough to satisfy anybody.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010027922
- Title
- In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09
- Author
- Arnold, Mary E., and Reed, Mabel
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803267037
- ISBN 13
- 9780803267039
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, Nebraska, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 5x0x8
- Keywords
- California, Native americans, Western Americana
- X weight
- 12 oz
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