Description
The signed limited edition of The Crittenden Memoirs, the story of Missouri Governor Thomas T. Crittenden, compiled by his son, H.H. Crittenden.
Octavo, xv, [17]-542pp. Paper boards, brown cloth spine, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Notable wear to cloth spine, rubbing to boards, some loss at head of spine. Text block solid. Lacking the publisher’s scarce slipcase. This work is complete with a frontispiece portrait, 24 illustrated plates and a foldout family tree of the Crittenden family.
From a limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author, this being number 93. (Adams, Six-Guns, #264)
Thomas Theodore Crittenden (1832-1909) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 24th governor of Missouri from 1881 to 1885. A member of the Democratic Party, he played a key role in suppressing outlaw activity in the state, notably by orchestrating the pursuit of the James-Younger Gang, which led to the killing of Jesse James in 1882. Before his governorship, Crittenden served as a U.S. congressman from Missouri (1873-1875, 1877-1879) and as Missouri’s attorney general (1864-1865). He was a Union Army officer during the Civil War and later held a diplomatic post as U.S. consul general to Mexico (1893-1897).
