Flying Hawk and M.I. McCreight [a.k.a. Tchanta Tanka]

Chief Flying Hawk's Tales: The true story of Custer's last fight as told by Chief Flying Hawk [Inscribed and Signed by McCreight]

New York: Alliance Press, 1936. Very Good+. Item #25155

New York: Alliance Press, [1936]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth lettered in black; 56pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, ten leaves of plates. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on half title: "To my old time pioneer friend who knows and appreciates Indians--Homer Reams [?] / 1939 / M.I. McCreight."

Posthumously published oral account of Chief Flying Hawk (1854-1931), combatant during the Great Sioux War of 1876 who, later in life, traveled with Buffalo Bill and the Great Wild West Shows as an educator and historian.

Price: $125.00