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Our Wild Indians

Second Edition

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The second edition of Our Wild Indians by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, in full brown morocco.

Octavo, xxxiv, [blank], 29-653pp. Full brown morocco, title in gilt, decorative bands on spine. Silk endpapers, gilt dentelle edges, all edges gilt. A custom decorative binding. Complete with 6 full page chromolithograph plates, 17 full page steel cut illustrations, frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Clean text block, light toning to tissue covers.

(Howes D-403) (Graff, 1114) (Rader 1172)

Includes an introduction by General Sherman. An exceptionally copy in this condition.

Colonel Richard Irving Dodge was an officer in the United States Army. He served as aide-de-camp for General William Tecumseh Sherman and spent most of his career protecting trade routes in the American West. In retirement, he was a prolific author, authoring numerous books about his experience in the American west. Those works include: Hunting Grounds of the Great West (1877), The Enlisted Soldier (1886), The Black Hills: A Minute Description of the Routes, Scenery, Soil, Climate, Timber, Gold, Geology, Zoology (1876). His Black Hills journal was published posthumously in 1996.

Additional information

Location Published

Hartford, Conn

Publisher

A.D. Worthington and Company

Edition

Second Edition

Date Published

1883

Binding

Leather bound

Condition

Near Fine

Author

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