Pacific Book Auction Galleries Sale 179

Sale 179

Autographs & Manuscripts
Americana
George Armstrong Custer
&
The Military Frontier

Thursday, January 28, 1999
10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.

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604. Pearson, Daniel C. On Being a Soldier. (Caption title; no title-page, as issued.) 20 pp. Cloth.
No place: Privately printed, c.1909
Inscribed on front pastedown, apparently in Pearson's hand: "James W. Hill, July 30, 1909. From an acquaintance with Lt. Col. Daniel C. Peterson, late 7th U.S.A. Cavalry now living in Candia, N.H. in Summer. (Formed acquaintance in good Ed. Chadbourne's shop, 7/29 - 1909)," with a later inscription below, "Colonel passed to his Long Home, late Autumn, 1920." Daniel C. Pearson, 1845-1920, graduated from West Point in 1870. He took part in the Sioux expeditions in 1874 and 1875, was on the Powder River expedition of March, 1876, at the Battle of the Rosebud in June of that year, was with Crook's Big Horn expedition, etc. He served elsewhere on the frontier until 1895. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the front free endpaper. Very good or better condition. (80/120)

605. Petersen, William J. Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi: The Water Way to Iowa. 575, [1] pp. 9˝x6, green cloth ruled & lettered in gilt. Printed by the Torch Press. First Edition.
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1937
Howes P263 - With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the front free endpaper; former owner's signature on front pastedown. Fine condition. (150/250)

606. (Photographers & Photography) Hurt & Lass. Frontier Photographer: Stanley J. Morrow's Dakota Years. [1956]. · Cunningham, ed. Indian Territory: A Photographic Record by W.S. Prettyman. [1957]. · Tilden. Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West. 1964. · Frink & Barthelmess. Photographer on an Army Mule: [The Story of Christian Barthelmess, who photographed the last frontier of the American West during the closing years of the nineteenth century]. [1956]. · Hoobler & Hoobler. Photographing the Frontier. [1980]. Together, 5 vols. Illus. from photographs. Cloth, all but 2nd in jackets.
Various places: various dates
All with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll. Some rubbing & wear to jackets, else all in very good or better condition. (200/300)

607. Powell, Peter John. People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879, with an Epilogue 1969-1964. 2 vols. Illus. with color plates reproducing pictographs, plus illustrations from photographs. 8˝x10ž, full linen, spines lettered in gilt, slipcase. First Edition.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, [1981]
With signed bookplates of John M. Carroll on the front free endpapers. Some foxing & soiling to slipcase & vol. spines, slight foxing to covers, else very good. (100/150)

608. Ralston, J.K. Rhymes of a Cowboy. Illus. throughout by Ralston, incl. color plates. 10˝x8, gilt-lettered padded cloth, slipcase. No. 79 of 200 copies. First Edition.
Billings, Rimrock Publishing, [1969]
Signed by Ralston on the front free endpaper. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the front free endpaper. Fine. (100/150)

MEMOIRS OF SIOUX MISSIONARY

609. Ravouz, A[ugustin], Monsignor. Remeniscences, Memoirs and Lectures. x, 223 pp. Frontis. & 2 other ports. 9žx6˝, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
St. Paul, MN: Brown, Treacy & Co., 1890
Graff 3425; Howes R75 - Ravoux went to Minnesota in 1840, and served as missionary to the Sioux from that date to 1876, his operations covering the vast region between Dubuque and Ft. Pierre. Signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the front free endpaper. Spine faded, ends worn, else very good. (200/300)
610. Reedstrom, Ernest Lisle. Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets. Illus. from photographs. 11x8˝, fabricoid, jacket with color illus. by Reedstrom. First Edition.
Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1977
With full-page inscription from Reedstrom to John M. Carroll, with a small sketch of an Indian on horseback; laid in are 3 color prints from paintings by Reedstrom, of Reno, Curley and Benteen, each titled and signed by Reedstrom, also a broadside describing Reedstrom and his work, with a photo of him, signed by him. The book is a study of Custer's 7th Cavalry, the soldiers, their weapons and equipment, etc. Some rubbing to jacket, near fine. (100/150))

611. (Reedstrom, Ernest Lisle) Crabb, Richard. Empire on the Platte. [1967]. · Reedstrom, Ernest Lisle. Historic Dress of the Old West. Dj. [1986]. Together, 2 vols. Illus. by Reedstrom, 2nd with color plates; both also with illus. from photographs. Cleveland & London: [1967 & 1986]
Both inscribed and signed by Reedstrom to John M. Carroll, and with original sketches by Reedstrom. The first, on the half-title, shows a grizzled hangman, holding his noose; the second, on the title-page, is a color self-portrait of Reedstrom, holding a giant brush over his shoulder. Each with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll. Near fine to fine condition. (80/120)

612. (Remington, Frederic) Frederic Remington: The American West. Selected & Edited by Philip R. St. Clair. Plates throughout after Remington. 9˝x13, full linen, moire silk endleaves, matching linen clamshell box lined with moire silk.
Kent, OH: Volair Ltd., 1978
Clamshell box soiled with some foxing & wear, silk liner fading; vol. covers with some foxing & soiling, else very good. (60/100)
613. Sabin, Edwin L. On the Plains with Custer: The Western Life and Deeds of the Chief with the Yellow Hair, under whom served Bugler Ned Fletcher, when in the Troublous Years 1866-1876 the Fighting Seventh Cavalry Helped to Win Pioneer Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota for White Civilization and Today's Peace. 309 + [7] pp. Illus. with 4 plates by Charles H. Stephens (incl. color frontis.) & 1 port. plate of Custer. Original pictorial cloth. First Edition. Philidelphia: Lippincott, 1913
Dustin 509 - A boys's story, which Dustin says is "one to be commended, for the author has to a great extent followed history...." Signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Slight rubbing to extremities, else near fine. (100/150)

SCARCE HISTORY OF THE SEVENTH

614. Sanders, O.L. History of the Seventh United States Cavalry, 1866-1925. 110 pp. Illus. from photographs. 6x9, original printed wrappers. First Edition.
[El Paso: 1925]
Scarce little history of the Seventh Cavalry written by Sanders, a First Lieutenant, at the suggestion of Colonel Fitzhugh Lee, commander of the regiment. Most of the photographs show the various troops as they were constituted in 1925; also G.A. Custer and Comanche. Accompanied by an A.L.s from Carl Hertzog to John M. Carroll, dated 11/21/81, describing the book, and noting that he had done the typesetting for it when he was working for the McMath Company ("I am not proud of the typography..."). Hertzog closes by hoping Carroll could find several copies of the book, and that "some collectors might pay $100 but $50 is my limit." Light staining & discoloration to wrappers; dampstain to lower corners of the first half of the contents, else very good. (100/150)
REPLY TO "GREAT AMERICAN DESERT"

615. [Sargent, John Osborne]. Major-General Hazen, on His Post of Duty in the Great American Desert, Reviewed. 32 pp. 8źx5ź, period ž morocco & cloth. First Edition. New York: Putnam, 1874
Howes S107 - A "savage reply" to a long letter written by William B. Hazen and published in the New York Tribune on February 27, 1874, in which he pronounced "a large proportion of the lands of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. worthless, both for agriculture and as security for money" because of insufficient rainfall. Streeter, describing the expanded version of the letter published in Cincinnati in 1875 as Our Barren Lands, notes that "General Custer and other friends of the railroad joined in the fray" in castigating Hazen. Howes makes an error in presenting Sargent's work as reply to Hazen's 1875 booklet, while of course it was to the letter which preceded it. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Covers detached; pencilings to title-page, some offset to title-page verso & 1st page of text, else internally very good, quite scarce. (300/500)

616. Schultz, James Willard. William Jackson, Indian Scout. His True Story, Told by His Friend, James Willard Schultz. First appearance in four issues of The American Boy, Vol. 27, Nos. 4, 5, 6 & 7, Feb.-May, 1926. Illus. by Frank E. Schoonover. 13˝x10ź, bound with the original wrappers in modern ž calf & cloth, spine dec. & lettered in gilt.
Detroit: Sprague Publishing, 1927
Mounted on one of the front flyleaves is a piece of paper signed by Julia Jackson Sanders Schenderline, niece of William Jackson, on facing page to which is a photograph of Schenderline at age eighty seated in a chair before some Indian artifacts placed on the floor. There are several other copy photographs mounted on the preliminary flyleaves, of Robert Jackson (Schenderline's father and William Jackson's brother, and also a scout with Custer); Hugh Monroe (first white man to live among the Blackfeet), William Jackson & a few others in front of a cabin; William Jackson, his wife and two children; and a sheet with the pictures and a newspaper article on Schenderline reproduced. There is also a three-page typed biography of Schenderline and ancestors, and a photostat of the family tree. The magazines have some wrapper wear & tape repairs, else in very good or better condition. (200/300)

617. Schultz, James Willard. William Jackson, Indian Scout: His True Story Told by His Friend. Illus. with 4 plates by Frank E. Schoonover. Cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1926
Dustin 243 - Jackson, one of the "Ree" scouts, was actually a Piegan, or Blackfoot. Dustin notes that "this book contains some very useful data... his story is of interest, expecially as relates to certain officers and scouts." Jacket with large piece missing at spine head, tape repair there & at corners & spine foot, a few chips, soiling, verso tape-repairs, still very good, quite scarce; the volume is in very good or better condition, with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. (150/250)

618. Sharp, Paul F. Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865-1885. Illus. by Charles M. Russell. Cloth, jacket. Second Edition. Helena: Historical Society of Montana, [1960]
Yost & Renner XVI:151 - The 1955 first edition did not contain the Russell illustrations. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Some rubbing & a few short tears & chips to jacket, verso repairs, price clipped; vol. near fine. (50/80)

619. Sheridan, P[hilip] H. & W[illiam] T. Sherman. Reports of Inspection Made in the Summer of 1877 General P.H. Sheridan and W.T. Sherman of Country North of the Union Pacific Railroad. 110 pp. Illus. with 10 folding maps; 5 wood-engraved plates. 9x5ž, original gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878
Howes S397 - Detailed maps and accounts of travel through Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, etc. Ink signature of Edward Dunn, war department, September the 20, 1888, to front free endpaper; signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front pastedown. Rubbing to covers, cloth split at front joint, wear to spine ends & corners; several maps with short stub tears, a few crease tears but no paper loss, else in very good condition. (300/500)

620. Sheriden, P[hilip] H. Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheriden, General United States Army. 2 vols. Illus. with wood engravings & maps, some folding. 9x5˝, gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignettes of Sheridan on horseback, waving his hat, on each front cover. First Edition.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1888
After serving with distinction in the Civil War, most notably as commander of the Union cavalry, Sheridan was transferred west, where he oversaw the settling of the Indians on reservations. He eventually rose to command the United States Army. Each with signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Rubbing to spine ends & corners, else very good. (100/150)

621. Sibley, Henry H. Iron Face: The Adventures of Jack Frazer, Frontier Warrior, Scout, and Hunter. A Narrative Recorded by "Walker-in-the-Pines" (Henry Hastings Sibley). Ed., intro., & notes by Theodore C. Blegen & Sarah A. Davidson. Foreword by Stanley Vestal. Frontis. port. Gilt-lettered red buckram. 1 of 500 copies printed by the Lakeside Press. First Edition.
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1950
Account of a half-breed Sioux warrior & scout first written in the 1850's, previously appearing only in newspaper serialization in the 1860's. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Very good or better condition. (100/150)

622. Smith, Wallace. Prodigal Sons: The Adventures of Christopher Evans and John Sontag. Illus. with 6 photo plates. Red cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, [1951]
Adams Six-guns 2055 - "The most extensive book on Evans and Sontag to date, and also the most authentic." Adams notes the book as scarce. Jacket lacking 3" piece from top of spine strip, 3x1" triangular piece from front panel, chips to corners & spine foot, joints, etc.; vol. very good or better, with signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. (70/100)

SIGNED BY SPOTTS & BRININSTOOL

623. Spotts, David L. Campaigning with Custer and the Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry on the Washita Campaign, 1868-'69. Edited and arranged by E.A. Brininstool. 215 pp. Illus. with photo plates. Blue cloth dec. in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. No. 271 (of 800 copies). First Edition. Los Angeles: Wetzel, 1928
Dustin 251; Howes S843; Luther 20 - Signed by Spotts and Brininstool on the inserted number page, with inscription to Herbert Brome. Limited to 800 copies, as noted on the jacket rear flap, though the limitation is not stated in the book. Howes notes that "of 800 copies printed, all but 300 burned." The text comprises Spotts' daily diary kept during the campaign against the Cheyennes, Kiowas and Comanches, and is one of the finest and most complete accounts by a soldier in the campaign, with much on Custer and the Elliott massacre. Jacket lacking 3x4" piece from front panel, other wear, verso tape repairs; vol. very good with a bit of extremity rubbing. (200/300)

624. Stanley, D[avid] S. Personal Memoirs of Major-General D.S. Stanley, U.S.A. [2], 271 pp. 8žx5ž, period buckram, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1917
Dustin 252; Howes S877 - Stanley served in the Civil War and on the plains. Ex-library with gilt spine number, rubberstamp removed from title, a few other markings. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Very good. (150/250)

625. Stewart, Edgar I. Custer's Luck. Illus. with photo plates & maps. Jacket. First Edition.
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1955
Light wear & sunning to jacket, round dot affixed to spine, price clipped; vol. near fine. (80/120)

626. Stoddard, William O. Little Smoke: A Tale of the Sioux. [2], 295 + [4] ad pp. Illus. with 14 plates, 12 of them from paintings by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, the others from photographs; numerous head and tailpieces by Dellenbaugh. 7žx5˝, original cloth dec. & lettered in silver. First Edition. New York: D. Appleton, 1891
With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Some rubbing to covers; hinge cracking before title, else very good. (100/150)

627. Swisher, James. How I Know, or Sixteen Years Eventful Experience. An Authentic Narrative, Embracing a Brief Record of Serious and Severe Service on the Battle-Fields of the South; ...Thrilling Adventures...on the Western Frontier and in the Wilds of the West; Life among the Mormons, the Miners, and the Indians.... 384 pp. Illus. with wood engravings. 8źx5˝, original cloth, rebacked with original spine strip laid on, new endpapers. First Edition.
Cincinnati: Published by the author, 1880
Cowan p.896; Flake 8554; Graff 4051; Howes S1183 - As noted by Cowan, includes Swisher's experiences in the mines; also Yosemite and the Big Trees, the Chinese Quarter in San Francisco, at Salt Lake City, etc. There is also a chapter on the Custer Massacre, which he lifted from J.H. Beadle's Western Wilds. Darkening & extremity wear to covers, rubbed; contents soiled, else good.
(200/300)

628. Taft, Robert. Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900. Illus. with numerous plates. 9žx6˝, cloth, jacket. First Edition. New York: Scribner's, 1953
With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front flyleaf. Jacket rubbed & lightly worn at extremities & edges, else very good. (80/120)

629. Tallent, Annie D. The Black Hills; or, The Last Hunting Grounds of the Dakotahs. A Complete History of the Black Hills of Dakota from their First Invasion in 1874 to the Present Time.... xxii, 713 pp. Numerous plates & photographs from photographs & a few other sources. 9x5ž, original gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition.
St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1899
Adams Herd 2232; Six-guns 2180; Graff 4061; Howes T14; Luther 145 - "...reviews the campaign briefly, but contains some accounts of hostilities in the Black Hills..." - Luther. Covers rubbed, worn at extremities; hinges cracked at endpapers, but generally very good, with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. 200/300)

630. Tallent, Annie D. The First White Woman in the Black Hills. As Told by Herself. Collected and Edited by O.W. Coursey. 181 pp. Gilt-lettered blue cloth. First Edition.
Mitchell, SD: Educator Supply Co., [1923]
Tallent ventured into the Black Hills in 1874 as part of the first expedition of gold seekers to the region following the Custer expedition. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Some shelf wear, spine gilt dull, else very good. (60/90)

631. Tatum, Lawrie. Our Red Brothers and the Peace Policy of President Ulysses S. Grant. 366 pp. Intro. by Thomas C. Battey. Illus. with photo plates. 7žx5ź, original gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1899
Howes T42 - An attempt, by a United States Indian Agent, to show that "`The Peace Policy' in dealing with the Indians, which commenced in 1869, has proved a great blessing to them, to the government, and to people of the nation." Howes notes that "most copies destroyed - or damaged - by fire." With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Rubbing to covers; front hinge cracked at endpapers, else very good. (100/150)

632. Taylor, Joseph H. Frontier and Indian Life and Kaleidoscopic Lives. 328 pp. Illus. from photographs & other sources. Cloth lettered in silver on front cover & spine.
Valley City, ND: Washburn's Fiftieth
Anniversary Committee, [1932]
Howes T67 & T68 - Combined reprint of Taylor's Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life... (1889) and Kaleidoscopic Lives (1901). The author lived for 25 years in the Dakotas, 1864-1889. Signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Marginal darkening to contents, else near fine. (80/120)

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF
JOSEPH TAYLOR'S FRONTIER SKETCHES

633. Taylor, Joseph H[enry]. Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri and Great Plains, Embracing the Author's Personal Recollections of Noted Frontier Characters, and Some Observations of Wild Indian Life during a Twenty-Five Years' Residence in the Two Dakotas and other Territories, Between the Years 1864 and 1889. 200 pp. Illus. with 12 plates, most from photographs, plus engravings in the text. 7žx5, original ž calf & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Pottstown, PA: By the author, 1889
Dustin 254 (listing 1897 ed.); Graff 4088; Luther 142; Howes T68 - Scarce work of some significance. Luther says the book "contains interesting sidelights on several of the participants [in the Custer fight], Charley Reynolds, Mark Kellogg, Bloody Knife, Gall..." As both Graff & Howes notes, there is mispagination of a few pages, and "some illustrations listed do not match those in the volume." With the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Both covers detached with some wear; internally in very nice condition, with just a little darkening occasional minor soiling. (700/1000)

634. (Teepee Book) The Teepee Book. 22 issues, Vol. I, No. 1 (Jan. 1915) to Vol. II, No. 12 (Dec. 1916). Illus. from photographs & other sources. 7˝x4˝, original wrappers, bound in 2 vols., modern blue buckram, spines lettered in gilt.
Sheridan, WY: Herbert Coffeen, 1915-1916
Complete run of the little magazine put out by history enthusiasts, including the two famous Custer Battle Numbers. Repair to lower margin of 2nd page of 1st number, a few with numbers neatly inked on the wrappers, else fine, with signed bookplates of John M. Carroll on front free endpapers. (200/300)

635. Terry, Alfred H. The Field Diary of General Alfred H. Terry: The Yellowstone Expedition - 1876. Ed. by Michal J. Koury. Photo port. of Terry mounted on verso of limitation page. No. 45 of 50 copies bound in leather.
[Bellevue, NE: Old Army Press, n.d.]
Signed by Koury at end of introduction. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Fine condition. (200/300)

636. Thian, Raphael P., comp. Notes Illustrating the Military Geography of the United States. 182 pp. Illus. with 4 folding charts. 9x5ž, modern ž calf & marbled boards, morocco spine label.
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1881
The four charts are expertly backed, otherwise in fine condition, with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. (100/150)

637. Thrapp, Dan L. Vengeance! The Saga of Poor Tom Cover. Illus. with photo plates. 9x5ž, full red morocco, spine lettered in gilt. No. 12 of 50 specially bound copies. First Edition. El Segundo: Upton, 1989
Signed by Thrapp on limitation page. Cover was one of the men who discovered gold at Alder's Gulch, Montana. Fine condition. (100/150)

638. Torrey, Edwin C. Early Days in Dakota. [3]-289 pp. Original gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition.
Minneapolis: Farnham Printing
& Stationary Co., [1925]
Adams Herd 2315 - Noted as scarce. Contains chapters on T. Roosevelt's ranching days, opening of the Sioux reserve, the tragedy of the buffalo, John Grass, etc. With the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Near fine with light extremity rubbing. (70/100)

639. Towne, Arthur E. Old Prairie Days. [4], 415 pp. 7˝x5ź, original cloth. First Edition.
Otsego, MI: Otsego Union Press, [1941]
Inscribed and signed by Towne on front free endpaper. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front pastedown. Some rubbing & wear to cover; hinges cracked at endpapers, else very good. (80/120)

GUIDE TO BIG HORN GOLD FIELDS

640. Triggs, J.H. A Reliable and Correct Guide to the Black Hills, Powder River, and Big Horn Gold Fields! Full Description of the Country, How to Get To It. Including a Correct Map of the Gold Regions. Gold Discoveries to Feb. 1, 1876. How to Mine and Where to Mine... The Great Yellow Stone National Park, Indian Question, Containing What Everybody Wants to Know About These New Gold Regions, &c., &c. 144 pp. incl. advertisements at rear. 8źx5ź, modern ž calf & marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, morocco label. First Edition.
Omaha: Herald Steam Book &
Job Printing Office, 1876

Graff 4193; Howes T353 - With accounts of the gold discovery, Custer's 1874 Black Hills expedition, the scientific explorations of Professor Walter P. Jenney, etc. As noted by both Graff and Howes, except for the title and first sixteen pages, the book is identical with the author's History of Cheyenne and Northern Wyoming, also issued in 1876 by the same publisher. This copy lacks the rare map, which has been supplied in facsimile. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Margins trimmed close at places but not affecting any text, stain to top margins of 1st 10 pp., else very good, in an attractive modern binding in the style of the 19th century. (1000/1500)

641. Trinka, Zena Irma. Out Where the West Begins: Being the Early and Romantic History of North Dakota. xvi, 422, [1] pp. Numerous plates & illus., most from photographs by D.F. Barry; folding map. 8˝x6, original gilt-dec. cloth. First Edition.
St. Paul: Pioneer Company, 1920
Includes chapters on George Catlin, the Sioux massacre of 1862, Custer's Black Hills expedition, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, etc.; expecially noteworthy for the many photographic illustrations by D.F. Barry. Rubbing to spine, some extremity wear; somewhat shaken, hinges cracked at endpapers, else very good, with signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front pastedown. (80/120)

642. Tuttle, C[harles] R[ichard]. History of the Border Wars of Two Centuries, Embracing a Narrative of the Wars with the Indians, from 1750 to 1876. [2], x, [3]-615 pp. Illus. with wood-engraved plates. 9x5ž, original gilt-dec. cloth. Third Edition. Madison, WI: A.C. Pennock, 1876
This third edition was the first to include the account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Spine rubbed, torn at head, rubbing to corners; a few signatures partially sprung, else very good, with signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front pastedown. (100/150)

643. Upton, Emory. [By Authority.] A New System of Infantry Tactics Double and Single Rank. Adapted to American Topography and Improved Fire-Arms. iv, 392 + [12] ad pp. With 109 plates on 108 sheets. 5˝x3˝, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. New York: D. Appleton, 1867
Formerly belonged to an army officer on the frontier, with old bookplate on which is written the officer's name (which has unfortunately been covered over with old printed paper on which is name "Paulus), beneath which is written "1 Lieut. 27th Inf. Ft. Reno, D.T. July 68." In addition, this book was in the library of the Research Division, Western Costume Co., Hollywood, California, with rubberstamp beneath the bookplate and on rear pastedown, and ink shelf marks "E-V60-A" to endpapers and title-page; also, ink name of Edmon Ellsworth to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Some staining & extremity wear to covers, front joint splitting; hinge cracked at p.2, soiling to a few pages, else very good. (200/300)

644. Upton, Richard, comp. & ed. The Custer Adventure: As Told by Its Participants. Illus. by J.K. Ralston. Full leather, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. No. 11 of 50 specially bound copies. First Edition. [
Ft. Collins, CO]: Old Army Press, [1975]
Signed by Upton on the limitation page. Fine condition. (100/150)

645. Upton, Richard. Fort Custer on the Big Horn, 1877-1898: Its history and personalities as told and pictured by its contemporaries. Plates from photographs. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1973
With two T.L.s. from Upton to John M. Carroll, each thanking him for "letting us use your Ralston line drawing in The Custer Adventure." Signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Rubbing to spine, a little shaken, else very good. (50/80)

CUSTER "DE-BUNKED"

646. Van de Water, Frederic. Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer. Plates from photographs, engravings & other sources. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1934]
Dustin 261; Howes V27; Luther 2; Rader 3520 - One of the most famous, and most controversial, biographies of General Custer. Dustin calls it "the first adequate biography of Custer the man and not the myth. He is faithfully pictured as he really was, and not as his worshipers saw him." Laid in is a sheet of printed reviews of the book, and a promotional postcard from Bobbs-Merrill, "Custer `De-bunked.'" The rare jacket has some chipping & rubbing, with a number of tape repairs/reinforcements on both recto & verso, price clipped, else very good; vol. near fine. (250/350)

GUY V. HENRY'S COPY,
WITH HIS NOTES

647. Wagner, Arthur L. The Service of Security and Information. xiv, 265 pp. With 15 diagram plates, 1 folding. 7˝x5, original cloth. First Edition.
Washington: James J. Chapman, 1893
This was Guy V. Henry's copy, signed by him in pencil on front flyleaf, and with bookplate of the U.S. Army Military History Research Collection at the War Office, indicating the book was presented by Henry, on front pastedown. There are penciled reference numbers in the margins throughout, and occasional notes, apparently in his hand; on the back of the final index page is inked a listing of supplies. Guy Vernon Henry, 1839-1899, graduated from West Point in 1861 and served with distinction in the Civil War, receiving a Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at Cold Harbor, Virginia. He commanded Apache scouts in the Southwest under Crook, then in 1874 was ordered to the Black Hills to remove miners illegally in the Sioux Country. He played an important role in the Rosebud action under Crook, and received a .44 caliber slug in the face, losing an eye. He continued to serve on the frontier, including the action at Wounded Knee, and was finally the military governor of Puerto Rico, Dec. 1898-May 1899. The book itself relates to scouting and front-line communication techniques. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Cover gilt dull with some rubbing & wear to covers, else very good. (150/250)

648. Wagner, Glendolin Wagner & Doctor William A. Allen. Blankets and Moccasins. Illus. with photo plates; pictorial endpapers. Dec. cloth, jacket. First Edition.
Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1933
Signed by Allen on title-page verso, "General W.A. Allen, Indian War Veteran, my Indian name White War Eagle, 1895, Age 87." Allen provided background material for this reflective account of the Crow Indians and their Chief Plenty Coups. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the verso of the front free endpaper. Fading to jacket spine & portions of the panels; else near fine. (100/150)

649. Walker, Judson Elliott. Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west, and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull. 139 + 9, [2] ad pp. Illus. with 7 wood-engraved plates. 9źx6, original printed wrappers, bound in modern half morocco & cloth, spine & front cover lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: Jenkins & Thomas, 1881
Dustin 267; Graff 4513; Howes W40; Luther 138; Rader 3567 - Dustin calls this "a rather scarce pamphlet" with "a few facts of interests," but feels its valued "greatly impaired by vagueness, erroneous statement, and failure to give names of persons against whom accusations are made." Nevertheless, a signficant, contemporary examination of Custer's last campaign. Signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Some wear & staining to wrappers; large chip to lower margin of p.121-2, else very good. (300/500)

650. Wellman, Paul I. Death in the Desert: The Fifty Years' War for the Great Southwest. Illus. with photo plates. 8˝x5˝, cloth, jacket. First Edition.
New York: Macmillan, 1935
Rader 3600 - Various Indian wars, mostly troubles with the Apache. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Some rubbing & edge wear to jacket, repairs on verso; darkening to endpapers, else very good. (60/90)

651. Wells, Charles Wesley. A Frontier Life: Being a Description of My Experience on the Frontier the First Forty-Two Years of My Life. With Sketches and Incidents of Homes in the West; Hunting Buffalo and Other Game; Trouble with the Indians, and My Early Work in the Ministry. 313 pp. 7źx4ž, original gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition.
Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye, [1902]

Howes W244 - Wells witnessed many incidents of conflict with the Indians in the 1860's, and lived for a while at the Red Cloud Agency. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Near fine. (100/150)

652. (West Point) Farley. West Point in the Early Sixties, with Incidents of the War. Wrappers bound in later cloth. (Lower corner of title-page clipped.) 1902. · Schaff. The Spirit of Old West Point, 1858-1862. Ink name of Col. A.E. Saxton on front pastedown, along with rubberstamp of T.A. Swinford. 1907. · Dupuy. Men of West Point: The First 150 Years of the United States Military Academy. [1951]. · Reeder & Campion. The West Point Story. [1956]. · Fleming. West Point: The Men and Times of the United States Military Academy. 1969. · Morrison. "The Best School in the World": West Point, the Pre-Civil War Years, 1833-1866. Review copy with slip laid in. Dj. [1986]. Together, 6 vols.
Various places : various dates
Each with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the front free endpaper. All in very good condition. (100/150)

653. (West Point) United States Military Academy, West Point. Register of the Officers and Cadets. 1870. · The same for 1871, with title Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. 1871. · The same for 1872. · The same for 1873. · The same for 1874. · The same for 1875. · The same for 1876. · The same for 1877. · The same for 1878. · The same for 1879. · List of Cadets Admitted into the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., from Its Establishment till September 30, 1876.... 1876. Together, 10 booklets bound together. 6˝x4ž, period ž morocco & cloth.
Washington: Govt. Ptg. Office, various dates
Spine strip lacking top 2", scuffing to leather, joints cracking; the last mentioned work is larger than the others, so a little dog-eared, several with old ink names, else very good. (150/250)

654. Wheeler, Homer W. Buffalo Days. Forty Years in the Old West: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter and Army Officer. 2 copies. Each with intro. by Major-General James G. Harbord. [26], 369 pp. 16 plates (with 18 images) from photographs & other sources. 8žx5˝, gilt-lettered blue cloth; each with a differently designed dust jacket. Second Editions (but first under this title).
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1925]
Howes W322 - The first edition was published in 1925 with the title The Frontier Trail. One of the jackets is in color, with picture of a cavalry trooper galloping on horseback, brandishing a pistol; the other jacket pictures an Indian wearing a headress. Both have the same blurbs and advertisements. Each vol. with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. Both with wear & tape-repairs, 2nd more heavily so; flaps clipped, else very good.
(100/150)

655. Whipple, Hanry Benjamin. Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate: Being Reminiscences and Recollections of the Right Reverend Henry Benjamin Whipple, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Minnesota. vi, [2], 576 + [2] ad pp. Illus. with photo plates & facsimiles. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. First Edition.
New York: Macmillan, 1899
Whipple was appointed Bishop of Minnesota in 1859, and he was thus a first-hand observer, and sometime participant, in the rocky intercourse between Indian and white during the second half of the nineteeth century. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the front free endpaper; former owner's signature on front pastedown. Minor spotting & shelf-wear to covers, else in very good or better condition. (70/100)

656. Willert, James. Little Big Horn Diary: Chronicle of the 1876 War. No. 148 of 500 copies. 1st Ed. [1977]. · Second Edition of preceding. No. 3 of 1000 copies. [1982]. · After Little Bighorn: 1876 Campaign Rosters. Spiral-bound wrappers. No. 18 of the limited first printing. [1985]. Together, 3 vols. Illus. by Warren A. Van Ness.
La Mirada, CA: James Willert, various dates
Each inscribed and signed by Willert to John A. Carroll. First two with Carroll's signed bookplate. All in fine condition. (100/150)

657. Winch, Frank. Thrilling Lives of Buffalo Bill, Colonel Wm. F. Cody, Last of the Great Scouts, and Pawnee Bill, Majore Gordon W. Lillie, White Chief of the Pawnees. 224 pp. Illus. with plates from various sources. 7źx5, original pictorial cloth. First Edition. [New York: S.L. Parson, 1911]
Adams Six-guns 2426 - Signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front free endpaper. The white portion of the cover lettering, and the white illustration, are partially flaked off; else very good. (100/150)

658. (Women in the West) Horan. Desperate Women. Inscribed & signed by Horan to John M. Carroll on notepaper affixed to front free endpaper. [1952]. · Havighurst. Annie Oakley of the Wild West. Dj (rubbed, front flap clipped). 1954. · Brown. The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West. (Some cover wear, front hinge cracking.) [1958]. · Carriker, ed. An Army Wife on the Frontier: The Memoirs of Alice Blackwood Baldwin, 1867-1877. Inscribed & signed by Carriker to John M. Carroll. 1 of 1250 copies. Dj. [1975]. · Myres. Cavalry Wife: The Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867. Dj. [1977]. · Stratton. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. Dj. [1981]. · Myres. Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915. Dj (with spine rubbing). [1982]. Together, 7 vols.
Various places: various dates
Each with the signed bookplate of John M. Carroll. Some minor jacket soiling & wear, else all in very good or better condition. (100/150)

659. (Wyoming) Morris, Robert C. Collections of the Wyoming Historical Society. Volume I. 352 pp. Illus. from photographs & engravings; map. 9x5ž, original cloth, paper spine label.
Cheyenne: Wyoming Historical Society, 1897
A scarce book with a range of significant material. Formerly in the University of Utah Library, with perforated stamp to title & elsewhere, bookplate, partially erradicated spine no., etc. Signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on the front free endpaper. Rubbing to spine label, wear to extremities; darkening to contents, last text page detached but present, else very good. (100/150)

660. Young, Harry. Hard Knocks: A Life Story of the Vanishing West. 212 + [1] ad pp. Illus. with 18 plates from photographs & other sources. 7˝x5ź, original cloth. Second Edition (or printing).
Chicago: Laird & Lee, [1915]
(Adams Six-guns 2466; Graff 4789); Howes Y27; Smith 11275 - With long signed presentation inscription from the author, dated Astoria, Oregon, 5/8/17, on front free endpaper. The Portland edition of the same year had the same pagination but seven more plates, and was printed on better paper. The author claimed to have known Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane and other noted characters, but Adams points out a number of inconsistancies in his recollections. With signed bookplate of John M. Carroll on front pastedown. Some rubbing to spine ends & corners; paper browned & somewhat brittle, some marginal worming & a few chips, else very good. (100/150)
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