[Rarebooks] FS: Rachael Plummer's Narrative

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PLUMMER, RACHAEL PARKER (1818-1839). 

_Rachael Plummer's _Narrative of Twenty-One Months Servitude as a
Prisoner among the Commanchee Indians_. Reproduced from the only known
copy with a Preface by Archibald Hanna and an Introduction by William S.
Reese._ 

Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1977. 8vo. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches.
Unpaginated. [32] pp. Half-title, 20 pages of the facsimile of the
_Narrative_; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown cloth spine, paper
over boards; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Hanna and Reese on the
colophon. Fine. 

$ 150 

LIMITED EDITION of 400 copies, this is number 324, composed in Monotype
Bell by the Stinehour Press and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company.
Contains a complete facsimile of the only known copy of Rachael
Plummer's captivity narrative. Rachel Plummer's 21-month captivity among
the Comanche became a sensation after she published her account in 1838.
The _Narrative_ is considered an example of the captivity narrative used
as propaganda to justify war against Native Americans, and an invaluable
look at Comanche culture before environmental destruction, disease,
starvation, and war forced them onto reservations. 

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