Our Wild Indians by Dodge, Colonel Richard Irving with introduction by General William Sherman: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West. A Popular Account of Their Social Life, Religion, Habits, Traits, Customs, Exploits, etc. With Thrilling Adventures And Experiences on the Great Plains And in the Mountains of Ou

Archer House , 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Several small chips to jacket. Edge wear to jacket. .

Hartford, Conn., USA: A D Worthington And Company, 1883. Second edition. Hardcover. Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. The boards and spine are present but detached. The front end page is missing and the book begins with the frontis of the author tissue guard present. Part of the contents introduction is missing and begins at chapter VI, otherwise the book is complete in 653 pages. Reading Copy

NY: Archer House, 1959. Reprint of the 1882 edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Archer House, 1959. Thick 8vo., 657pp., illustrated with plates. Gray cloth with burgundy titles and cover pictorial. Very good plus, clean attractive copy in very good plus dust jacket.. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo.

Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington and Company. Good. 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. Woodcuts and chromo-lithographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 653 pages; 1883 A. D. Worthington and Company. HC 2nd edition. In original brown cloth with pictorial title design in gilt to cover and spine. Gilt at spine rubbed and dulled. Binding shaken and tender. Splits in the lining pages in the hinges have been archivally reinforced with japanese paper. Cloth with shallow fray and loss at spine ends; corner bumped and rubbed through at tips. A few signatures starting slightly at the front edge. Several pages, including the title page and one of the 6 tissue guarded chromo-litho plates have short edge tears which we have mended with archival paper tape. Occasional light spotting to the poor quality page stock which is toned and easily torn if not handled with care. Small prior owner name stamp in the gutter of the Dedication page. Numerous woodcut plates and 6 chromo plates illustrated the book, one of… Read More

Rebound with brown full pebbled cloth boards. Numerous engravings on steel and wood and chromo-lithograph plates. Introduction by General William T. Sherman. Publishers' "Guarantee To Subscribers" laid in. Very good, no dust jacket. Tape repair to verso of title page, lettering on spine dulled.

Chicago: A. D. Worthington and Company, 1883. Second edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Presumed second edition (copyright date is 1882), very good in the original brown cloth with gilt lettering and designs. Front hinge is tape repaired, but still holding together. Two different owner names on second (blank) front endpaper. Spine is somewhat sun faded but still legible, with wear at the top edge and a small tear at the top of the rear gutter. Complete with no marks in the text; all plates are present (including 6 chromoliograph color plates with tissue guard). One page (629/630) is missing about one quarter of the text. Introduction by William T. Sherman, who Dodge served under.

A.D. Worthington, 1882. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Near Fine Copy First Edition 1882/1882 Spine Gilt of Book Excellent Rare In This Condition. Ownership Name Excellent Fresh Copy Of This Classic. .

[American Indians] Dodge, Colonel Richard Irving. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West. A Popular Acoount of their Social Life, Religion, Habits, Traits, Customs, Exploits, etc. With an Introduction by General William T. Sherman. Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Company, 1882. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy in rebound brown leather binding with the original leather backstrip attached. In 1882, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, Aid-de-Camp to General Sherman, wrote in the Author's Preface "The greater part of the past thirty-four years of my life has been spent on the frontier in more or less direct contact with Indians. I present in this volume a detailed account of the characteristics, habits, and,--what I particularly desire to invite attention to,--a minute and careful study of the social or inner life of the wild Indian of the present day." Complete with 6 full-page chromolithograph plates, 17 full-page steel cut… Read More

Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Company ; et all, 1882. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Various. A smartly bound first edition copy of an interesting work on Native Americans by an influential colonel of the United States Army. The first edition. Smartly rebound in a modern quarter morocco binding, bound by the Temple Bindery.Illustrated with a frontispiece, five chromolithograph plates, and eighteen monochrome plates.Collated, lacking page 651-653, and one chromolithograph plate, to face page 128. 'Our Wild Indians' is an American work in which the author, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, explores the customs, traits, habits, religion and social lives of the 'Red Men of the Great West'.An interesting work providing insight on American views on Native Americans in the nineteenth century.The author, Richard Irving Dodge, was an important colonel in the United States Army, who had a long and successful career. His great-uncle was Washington Irving. In a quarter morocco binding with… Read More

A.D.Worthington, 1882. Book. Near Fine. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine Copy In The Rare 3/4 Black Leather. First Edition 1882/1882 A Classic On The Old West. Without Foxing Rare In This Format. Excellent Fresh Copy..