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Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab
Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab
Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab
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Come along as one man hunts for Tobacco Sign Indians – large carvings of Native Americans typically made of wood or plaster. There is a sordid history of the association between Native Americans and tobacco. One collector sees the beauty and the dark history behind this association and decides to collect Tobacco Sign Indians.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSharp Ink
Release dateJun 15, 2022
ISBN9788028208875
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    Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab - Kate Sanborn

    Kate Sanborn

    Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab

    Sharp Ink Publishing

    2022

    Contact: info@sharpinkbooks.com

    ISBN 978-80-282-0887-5

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    TO make my title complete, it should read Hunting Indians in a Taxi-cab with a Camera.

    Nature lovers long since found out that the camera was the best weapon to take into the woods, and mighty hunters are now depicted as using the auto to carry them to the wild and to bring back their trophies.

    It was reserved for one of my friends to follow the trail to the city of New York, as his happy hunting ground and to hire a taxi-cab there for the express purpose of hunting a desirable Tobacco Sign Indian. After two days of vain search, he came across a prize.

    The Indian stood, a splendid specimen, in Bleecker street, in front of a combination barber and tobacco store; he was nine feet, seven inches tall and was standing on a two-foot pedestal, posing as a Herald of Choice Tobacco; an ignominious position for such a superb creature.

    He was purchased, after a deal of haggling over the price, for he was minus a nose and was at that time suffering from a bad weather crack extending diagonally across his stomach, well up into his chest.

    An old man on the same street, who was engaged to box and crate the Indian, was deeply interested in him and also in the march of Time and the disappearance of many of our traditions and relics in this comparatively new country, and said to my friend, You do well to purchase one of these figures, for, sir, the Indians on the American continent is fastly disappearing, both in flesh and wood.

    He was next sent to a cabinet maker to receive surgical treatment—his rather serious wounds filled up and a new hawk-like nose

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