Tahan: Out of Savagery into Civilization

  • New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915
By Joseph K. Griffis
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Very Good +. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Presumed later printing lacking publisher's logo to title or copyright page. Octavo. 263 pp. Black and white photographs including frontispiece, complete. Red-orange cloth stamped in yellow and blue. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges with some very mild scuffing. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and pages otherwise unmarked.

In this memoir Griffis claims he grew up as a Kiowa warrior and later became an army scout. Though Griffis' myriad adventures are difficult to prove, historian Arthur C. Parker does vouch for their authenticity in the introduction.

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