Lot 742

"Sitting Bull Champion Of The Sioux" 1st Ed.

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For your consideration is presented the 1st Edition book, "Sitting Bull Champion of the Sioux" by Stanley Vestal 1957, 26 illustrations. This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive biography of the famous champion of the Sioux, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader, Sitting Bull. The fruit of prolonged first-hand research among Plains Indians with whom Vestal had been closely associated since boyhood, this definitive biography offers a unique insight into the life of this most famous of Plains Indians. It will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in him. Stanley Vestal was an American writer, poet, biographer, and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the American Old West, including "Dodge City, Queen of the Cowtowns" and "Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux". Overall condition is good, the cream coloured cloth bound cover is solid with minor wear consistent with normal handling, pages have slight foxing. Measures 9.25"L x 6"W x 1"D