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8vo. Pp. xx, 555. Frontis. black & white illustration. Illustrated, including at least one fold-out illustration. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Mild rubbing to extremities. With the Alaskana bookplate of Judge James Wickersham.Tipped in is a frontispiece illustration "An Old Settlers' Meeting;" featured on the verso is a letter in Meeker's hand, dated Seattle, 1909, addressed to Judge James Wickersham. Tipped in at the rear pastedown is a note regarding the delivery of Meeker's book to Wickersham, and the address to which Wickersham should remit the $3.00 check. Wickersham (1857-1939), served as district judge of Alaska, and later as as the territory's delegate to Congress. An ardent scholar of Alaska's history, he's perhaps best known for A Bibliography of Alaskan LIterature 1724-1924.Meeker's cogent defense of Chief Leschi is a damning indictment of Washington Territory Governor Isaac Stevens and his irrational need to identify a scapegoat for the killing of two white soldiers. His letter to Wickersham touches on Wickersham's claim that Stevens' treaties with Native tribes were prepared in Washington DC; if that were true, Meeker says it wouldn't relieve Stevens of culpability. SMITH, 6708.
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