Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "wild" Indian by Orin Starn

Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "wild" Indian

Orin Starn

352 pages paperback 2004

3 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist A...

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