Illustrations from photographs. (4to) blue leatherette, dust jacket. No. 35 of 100 specially bound copies. First Edition.
Signed by Frost at the limitation. Colonel David S. Stanley had been ordered to provide an escort for the survey crew of the Northern Pacific Railroad while it surveyed a transcontinental route along the Yellowstone River. Custer and the 7th Cavalry provided greater strength and mobility to the expedition in the event of hostile Indian attacks.