Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians by George P. Belden [HARDCOVER RE-ISSUE] 1971 •

Belden The White Chief: Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians by George P. Belden 

FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER RE-ISSUE [1971] OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Beautiful near mint copy with some very mild shelf wear.  Dust jacket housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Young George Belden lived one of the most remarkable of lives of any man on the western frontier of America. A runaway at 13, he lived among the Sioux, learning their language and ways, and married a young Sioux woman to whom he became very attached. Though a young man, he was regarded as a writer of merit in regards to his work on Native Americans.

He later served in the U.S Army cavalry with Major James Brisbin, who collected the material you're about to read from Belden's diaries and manuscripts. Brisbin was also a writer of note in his day and was also part of the Montana Column under General John Gibbon that was slated to unite with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn.

Belden's time among the Indians was exciting, fraught with danger, amusing, and even heartwarming.