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The Trader on the American Frontier, Myth's Victim
by Lamar, Howard R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 089096033X
- ISBN 13
- 9780890960332
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
College Station and London:: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (5.00). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with drawings by Kristin Emig Parsons. Lamar is William Robertson Coe Professor of American History at Yale University. He is probably best known to the book world for editing the indispensable, READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN WEST. In this study, Lamar debunks several frontier trader stereotypes. Bibliographical footnotes. Bound in the original gray boards, lettered in black and bright white on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Like the cowboy, the frontier trader has been so wrapped in myth that our understanding of who he was and what he did is largely shaped by stereotype... Examining these... Lamar shows that early trade was, on the contrary, one of the first and most successful ways red men and white communicated, and that the traders were not snakes in America's western Eden but participants in a vigorous if exploitive trade system already in existence for generations, and until the Rocky Mountain fur trade bypassed the Indian, tribal ways deteriorated little...". First Edition (so stated).. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. Illus. by Parsons, Kristin Emig . 8vo. 53pp..
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Trader on the American Frontier, Myth's Victim
- Author
- Lamar, Howard R
- Illustrator
- Parsons, Kristin Emig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket.
- Edition
- First Edition (so stated).
- ISBN 10
- 089096033X
- ISBN 13
- 9780890960332
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Place of Publication
- College Station and London:
- Date Published
- 1977
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
- Size
- 8vo. 53pp.
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