Fighting Indians Of The West : A Picture History Of The Indian Wars, With 270 Photographs, Sketches And Paintings
by Schmitt, Martin F. / Brown, Dee
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good Dust Jacket
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About This Item
New York, New York: Bonanza Books - Charles Schribner's Sons. Good in Good Dust Jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 362 pages: 9.25 x 12 in.: 4.2: KB#004794: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered, except that the front flyleaf has been detached and there is a tear to the spine where it was. Otherwise, the book itself would qualify as in Very Good, or even Fine Condition. Dustjacket has several tears along edges and is worn at flap edges. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book "Two hundred and seventy authentic photographs and sketches and a running narrative of rare simplicity and power make up this story of the struggle between the United States and the western Indian tribes which chose to fight rather than to go tamely on reservations. The pictures have been brought together from many sources, and for the first time present a contemporary pictorial record of the chiefs, the scouts, the historic Army posts, battles and skirmishes, from Red Cloud's attack on Fort Phil Kearny in 1866 down to the day of final tragedy at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890." .
Synopsis
Two hundred and seventy authentic photographs and sketches and a running narrative of rare simplicity and power make up this story of the struggle between the United States and the western Indian tribes which chose to fight rather than to go tamely on reservations. The pictures have been brought together from many sources, and for the first time present a contemporary pictorial record of the chiefs, the scouts, the historic Army posts, battles and skirmishes, from Red Cloud's attack on Fort Phil Kearny in 1866 down to the day of final tragedy at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890.
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- Bookseller
- KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004794
- Title
- Fighting Indians Of The West : A Picture History Of The Indian Wars, With 270 Photographs, Sketches And Paintings
- Author
- Schmitt, Martin F. / Brown, Dee
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books - Charles Schribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- America, Indians, Cowboys, Western, Frontier
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