Add this copy of Indian Place Names of the Penobscot Valley and the to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by Conover Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Martinsville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by University of Maine.
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Very Good. 3rd Printing. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 272. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is lightly creased; some shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Very rare and hard-to-find title! Color illustrated wrapper with red lettering. 272 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages! Extremely scarce! "Because there has been no authoritative source of information about the Indian place-names of Maine, the writer was invited to prepare for the University of Maine Studies a treatise on the names of the Penobscot Valley region and the adjacent coasts which would meet scholarly standards and yet be serviceable for ready reference. The undertaking demanded familiarity with several Indian languages and considerable acquaintance with the Maine dialects, solid grounding in the documentary history of colonial New England, knowledge of the coast and woods of Maine more intimate than mere map acquaintance, and actual contact with living Maine Indians....."----from the Preface.