1901 The North-Americans of Yesterday

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Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

An intimate look at the lives of North-Americans during the nineteenth century.

Dellenbaugh looks at their dialects, their forms of writing, pottery, sculpture, instruments, ceremonies, and myths.

Frederick Dellenbaugh was an explorer, being a member of the expedition that discovered the Escalante River and the Henry Mountains. He also joined expeditions to Alaska, and to the Colorado River, travelling widely across the United States and Europe.

His other publications include 'The Romance of the Colorado River', 'Breaking the Wilderness', and 'In the Amazon Jungle'. 

With a frontispiece and over three-hundred and fifty vignette illustrations throughout, most credited as being from either the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, or the Peabody Museum.