Strange Empire: A Narrative of the Northwest by HOWARD, Joseph Kinsey - 1952

New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. An ex-library, first edition of Joseph Kinsey Howard's history of the Métis people of central Canada. Descended from both American Indians and English, French and Scots frontiersmen, the Métis had notions of establishing an independent state straddling the present-day US-Canada border, west of the Red River. With several maps by Irvin Shope, and a preface by Bernard DeVoto. --- In black cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Panels from the dust jacket have been cut out and pasted to front endpapers. --- Library ownership evidence consists of white serial number on spine, rubberstampings, and rear paste-down pocket; and with fingerprints and mild cover corner bumps, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy.; Ex-Library; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 601 pages .