The Costo Collection is Seeking Classics of Native Native American History as Donations

The Costo library is seeking donations toward certain classics of Native American history. Below is a list of texts that we are looking to add to our collection. If you would like to make a donation toward acquiring these texts, please contact Melissa Conway . Donations are tax deductible.

Baxter, George Owen. Western Story Magazine 50:6 (1927).

Bry, Theodor de. Collectiones Peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Indiam
Occidentalem. Francofurti ad Moenum: M. Merian, 1590.

Carver, Jonathan. Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years
1766, 1767, and 1768. London: C. Dilly, H. Payne, J. Phillips, 1781.

Catlin, George. Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. London: George Catlin, C.
and J. Adlard, printers, 1844.

Choris, Louis. Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde. Paris: Impr. de Firmin Didot,
1822.

Curtis, Edward S. The North American Indian: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and
Describing the Indians of the United States. Cambridge, Mass: The University
Press, 1907-1930. “In a Piegan Lodge” 20 portfolios of numbered plates (1910)
and “Woman and Child Nunivak” 20 portfolios of numbered plates (1928).

Cushing, Frank Hamilton. Almost a Life, or, Saved by the Indians: A Truthful Story of
Life Among Our Western Indians. New York: s.n., 1880.

Eastman, Mary Henderson. Dahcotah, or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort
Snelling. New York: J. Wiley, 1849.

Kane, Paul. Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America. London:
Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859.

Lewis, James Otto. The Aboriginal Portfolio, or, a Collection of Portraits of the Most
Celebrated Indians Chiefs of the North American Indians. Philadelphia: J.O.
Lewis, 1836.

McKenney, Thomas Loraine. History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough [etc.], 1838-1844.

Möllhausen, Balduin. Tagebuch einer Reise vom Mississippi nach den Küsten der
Südsee. Leipzig: H. Mendelssohn, 1858.

Montanus, Arnoldus. De Nieuwe en Obekende Weereld. t’Amsterdam: J. Meurs, 1671.

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects
Of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo,
1853-1856.

Shelton, Gilbert. Feds ’n’ Heads. Austin, Tex.: G. Shelton, 1968.

Simpson, James Hervey. Journal of a Military Reconnaissance from Santa Fe.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1852.

Stratton, Royal B. Life Among the Indians: Being an Interesting Narrative of the
Captivity of the Oatman Girls, Among the Apache and Mohave Indians. San
Francisco: Whitton, Towne & Co.’s Excelsior Steam Power Presses, 1857.

Stratton, Royal B. Life Among the Indians, or, the Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among
the Apache and Mohave Indians. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935.

Triplett, Frank. Conquering the Wilderness, or, New Pictorial History of the Life and
Times of the Pioneer Heroes and Heroines of America. New York and St. Louis:
N.D. Thompson & Company, 1883.

Weid, Maximillian, Prinz von. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis
1834. Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839-1841.

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