Tixier's Travels on the Osage Prairies
**EXTREMELY RARE & OOP**

edited by John Francis McDermott

Translated from the French by Albert J. Salvan

University of Oklahoma Press, c1940, Stated 1st Edition, First English Edition, 309 pages. GOOD+ Condition Illustrated Hardcover. This book is exlibrary with usual markings, light cover wear/soiling, frontispiece (not there, but also no indication it was ever there) & some wear to book corners. This book was originally published in Paris in 1844 in an extremely small printing. Pages & Binding are NICE & TIGHT!



Victor Tixier's travels were made in Missouri and Louisiana in 1839-1840. A fine account of Osage life on the plains in 1840.

Tixier traveled from France to New Orleans and thence up the Mississippi. This is a journal of high adventure. The narrative of a young Frenchman of good family who traveled up the Mississippi River in 1840 and experienced every boy's dream when he joined the Osage for their summer buffalo hunt.

American Travel and Exploration. KEYWORDS: Western Indians, Louisiana, Steamboats, Choctaw, Ouatcha Bayou, Missouri, Saint Louis, Shawnee, Pawnee, Kansa, Deer Hunt, The Arkansas, War Camp, Charcoal Dances, Attire, War Mats, War Birds, Oua-Kondah, Manitou's, Missionaries, Majakita, Arkansas River, History



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