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GRINNELL, George Bird.
The North American Indians of Today.
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1900
Stock code: 44206
Price: £950 Currency Conversion
First UK edition, somewhat scarcer than the American. Grinnell originally trained in natural history, serving as naturalist on Custer's 1874 Black Hills expedition as a graduate student, but dodging the bullet - having been invited - on the Little Big Horn expedition. His experiences with the Plains Tribes changed the focus of his work, and his anthropological studies of the indigenous peoples of America were recognized as the most authoritative of their time. His understanding of the interdependence of the Native American peoples and the animals of their homelands led him to become a pioneering advocate of various conservation and environmental initiatives. He personally lobbied for congressional support for legislation to protect the American buffalo; was editor of Forest and Stream Magazine from 1876 to 1911, and in 1887 was a founding member, with Theodore Roosevelt, of the Boone and Crockett Club, dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands. The superb photographic portraits "of living Indians" - including Geronimo - were taken by Rinehart at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha in 1898.
Quarto (303 × 203 mm) original oatmeal buckram, title in black to the spine, image of an Indian warrior to the upper board in red, black and yellow. Half-tone portrait frontispiece and 54 other similar plates from photographs by F. A. Rinehart. Slightly rubbed and soiled, some damp-mottling to the lower board, hinges cracking as often, text-block a little browned, but overall a very good copy.
