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Item Details
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| Author: |
[Brayton, Matthew] |
| Title: |
The Indian Captive. A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of Matthew Brayton, In His Thirty-four Years of Captivity Among the Indians of North-Western America |
| Place: |
Cleveland |
| Publisher: |
Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., printers |
| Date: |
1860 |
| Item # : |
204696 |
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| Sale Number |
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415 |
| Lot Number |
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27 |
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| Americana - Cartography - Travel & Exploration |
| Sale Date |
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11/05/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1080 |
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| Description: |
| 68 pp. 6¼x4¼, original printed wrappers, with recent cloth slipcase & chemise. First Edition. |
| First edition of this rare and important captivity narrative, scarce in wrappers. Brayton was carried off from his home in northwestern Ohio at age seven in 1825, and sold to the Pottawatomies, who took him to Michigan and traded him from tribe to tribe including the Paw Paws, Winnebagoes, Chippewas, Sioux and the Snakes. The Sioux took him west to the country of the Snakes who purchased him and adopted him into their tribe. Brayton claims to have been in Missouri with them, and later to have spent some five years in California in their company. While still with this tribe he went to Oregon where he fought against the Blackfeet. After wandering the west for thirty-four years he returned to the settlements in 1859, and in 1861 enlisted in the army. He died in the service of his country at Pittsburgh landing in 1862. According to Ernest Wessen, Brayton's narrative was recounted to John H. A. Bone, editor of the Cleveland Daily Herald, who is presumed to have composed the published version, as Brayton who had lived among the Indians for most of his life could neither read nor write and spoke English with difficulty. Eberstadt 122:40; Graff 393; Greenly, Michigan 32; Howes B-736; Streeter Sale VII: 4272; Siebert Sale 994; Thomson 115; Wagner-Camp 351 |
| Condition: |
| Wrappers worn and finger-soiled, stained, some edge tears and chipping, text foxed, corners rounded, later whip-stitching along spine, contemporary pencil ownership signatures of Peter Zimmerman on inside of front wrapper, else a good copy, well thumbed and voraciously read. |
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