Post by Californian on Nov 2, 2020 13:05:04 GMT -5
Early Days Among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, by John Homer Seger and edited by Stanley Vestal, 1934, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, hardcover, octavo format, 155 p.
Number 5 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. John Homer Seger (1846-1928) founded Colony Oklahoma and the Model Indian Industrial School. His memoirs were presented to the University of Oklahoma and were edited by Vestal and published in 1923. This is the first printing in book form. Many believe Vestal wrote most of the material. Seger presented these memoirs to the University of Oklahoma and they were published in 1932, under the editorship of Walter S. Campbell (Stanley Vestal). They are here republished without change, with the addition of an article by Seger originally printed in The Arapahoe Bee. Stanley Vestal was an associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and a former Rhodes Scholar. The stories are well told without literary adornment. The Editor claimed to have done very little retouching. He preferred the material to appear just as it was written by Seger. He seemed occasionally to have overlooked a misspelling or a grammatical infelicity which would better have been corrected. The ten stories are independent but with a thread of connection. The editor stated that the arrangement was in the main chronological. All the stories are graphic and revealing of conditions in the Indian Territory from about 1870. Some of them are of no great historical value but are revealing of life among the Indians in frontier days. Seger was clearly a man of native ability and courage and much common sense, all of which had thrilling tests in his experiences.
Number 5 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. John Homer Seger (1846-1928) founded Colony Oklahoma and the Model Indian Industrial School. His memoirs were presented to the University of Oklahoma and were edited by Vestal and published in 1923. This is the first printing in book form. Many believe Vestal wrote most of the material. Seger presented these memoirs to the University of Oklahoma and they were published in 1932, under the editorship of Walter S. Campbell (Stanley Vestal). They are here republished without change, with the addition of an article by Seger originally printed in The Arapahoe Bee. Stanley Vestal was an associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and a former Rhodes Scholar. The stories are well told without literary adornment. The Editor claimed to have done very little retouching. He preferred the material to appear just as it was written by Seger. He seemed occasionally to have overlooked a misspelling or a grammatical infelicity which would better have been corrected. The ten stories are independent but with a thread of connection. The editor stated that the arrangement was in the main chronological. All the stories are graphic and revealing of conditions in the Indian Territory from about 1870. Some of them are of no great historical value but are revealing of life among the Indians in frontier days. Seger was clearly a man of native ability and courage and much common sense, all of which had thrilling tests in his experiences.
