Author: SMITH, DONALD B
Title: Long Lance the True Story of an Impostor
Description: Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771595859. DJ shows some shelf wear with small tears and light chipping, scuffing, small bump top edge of book. Pages are toned; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.50 X 5.70 X 1.20 inches; 304 pages; "At the turn of the century, a boy named Sylvester Long, the son of mixed blood parents, living in the "colored" section of Winston-Salem NC, signed on with a traveling Wild West show where he fell in with the Indians who worked the show and started to pass as one. Thereafter he fabricated a wholly fictitious past and won favor in the white man's world as a Blackfoot chief, a West Point scholar, a war hero who served with the Canadian troops at Vimy Ridge." Smith untangles the truth from the fiction.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

Keywords: 0771595859 Blackfoot long lance Biographies & Memoirs Native Studies


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