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xviii, 446 pp. Edited with an Introduction by Bennett H. Stein. Illustrated from photographs and maps. 8vo. Beige cloth stamped with dark brown, spine lettered in gilt, map endpapers, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Printing.

Andrew Garcia's previously unpublished autobiographical account on the Montana frontier. Recounts his life as a herder for the U.S. Army, adventures as a fur trader, and how he came to have three Native American wives. His first wife, In-who-lise, who was with Chief Joseph during "The Trail of Tears," gives her account when the Nez percé tribe was forced to move from their homes to a reservation in Idaho.