THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS, A ROMANCE OF INDIAN OREGON WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY L. MAYNARD DIXON
Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1924. L. Maynard Dixon. 26th edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 5 in. x 7.5 in ., Brick red buckram cover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover has green/black drawing of canoe reflecting on the water. Very slight rubbing to bottom corners and bottom of spine. Spine and hinges are tight. xii + 280 pp The inscription and owner's name, dated 1926, to front endpaper; no other interior marks. Dust jacket, which includes an illustration by Dixon. occasional shelfwear,and several small chips (missing from) top and bottom of spine, and lower right corner. Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. Item #85381
From the back of dust jacket: "Two hundred years ago a huge natural bridge (the Bridge of the Gods), which then spanned the Columbia Rover at the "Cascades," was the symbol of the power of the Willamettes, then head of the Confederacy of Oregon and Washington Indian tribes. Mr Batch tells the story of the first bringing of Christianity to these Indians by Cecil Grey, a New England clergyman, at the time when the collapse of the great bridge proved precurser to the collapse of the tribe whose power it symbolized. The author's knowledge of Indian lore and sympathy with the Indian point of view and spiritual attitude toward nature and life was so complete that his book has become a classic, worthy to rank with the Indian romances of Fenimore Cooper."
Price: $75.00