THE FIFTH CAVALRY IN THE SIOUX WAR OF 1876. CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK

by King, Charles:

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Book Description

Milwaukee, Wi.: Printed by the Sentinel Company, 1880.. [8],133,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine slightly chipped, minute wear to edges, wrappers a bit browned. Contemporary ownership signature on front and rear wrappers. Internally quite clean. Overall an excellent copy of this rare western classic. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box. This is the rare first edition, of which King states in the preface of the 1890 reprint: "Only enough copies were printed to reach the few comrades who rode the grim circuit of the 'Bad Lands' in that eventful year, and the edition was long ago exhausted." King was first lieutenant of the Fifth Cavalry, and served through the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition of 1876. His journal of the expedition is one of the most interesting narratives of Indian warfare in the Wyoming and Dakota country ever published. The company left Laramie on June 22 for the purpose of cutting off the Indians on the South Cheyenne line. On July 7 a courier reached them with news of the annihilation of Gen. Custer and his favorite companies of the Seventh Cavalry. The Fifth, with nothing but the clothes they wore and without supply wagons, started in pursuit of the Indians, trailing and fighting them through nearly a thousand miles of country in a period of ten weeks, halting only at the head of the Heart River, when the last ration was gone. The ownership signature on the rear wrapper appears to be that of J. Hayden Pardee, dated "Fort Reno, I.T. [Indian Territory] 1880." Pardee of the 23rd Infantry served during the Crook Campaign, and his name is underlined on the roster page. HOWES K147, "b." GRAFF 2327. JONES 1607. STREETER SALE 1826. JENNEWEIN 63.

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