NY, Dodd, Mead, (1936). The first book by McNickle, a writer of Flathead Indian descent, and a landmark Native American novel, one of the early books to address questions of assimilation and alienation from both the white way of life and traditional tribal culture. It began the process in American Indian literature of looking for value in traditional Native American beliefs even in the face of such alienation. As such, Charles Larson's seminal study of Native American literature (American Indian Fiction, Albuquerque, 1978) links McNickle with N. Scott Momaday -- thirty years McNickle's junior -- as the two writers who predate the later wave of politically aware Native American writers such as James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko. Owner name from 1939 on front pastedown and small bookstore label on rear pastedown; foxing to page edges and dustiness to cloth; still a near fine copy lacking the dust jacket, as is typically the case. A very scarce book, even without its dust jacket. We have seen this book in jacket only twice. [#028489] SOLD