The Prairie Logbooks: Dragoon Campaigns to the Pawnee ~ J.H. Carleton 1943 1/350

Description: The Prairie Logbooks: Dragoon Campaigns to the PawneeLt. J. Henry Carleton, edited by Louis Pelzer Chicago: Caxton Club. First Edition 1943 Book: Fine, Slipcase: Good, HardcoverBlue cloth spine with red cloth boards. Title and pattern in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, all edges clean with square corners. Boards and spineare clean and binding is tight. Front pastedown has ex-libris bookplate from the library of Edmund C.R. Lasher. Slipcase is black with wear to all corners (doing it's job!). This is the first edition and is 1/350 copies designed by William Kitteredge and edited by Louis Pelzer, a professor at the State University of Iowa. Carleton's Logbooks first appeared in 1845 in newspapers and were intended to allow readers to follow along in his expeditions across the West. This is "a detailed account of the journey of five companies of dragoons from Fort Leavenworth to the Pawnee villages in Nebraska. Carleton described the tour and its physical obstacles, various hunting episodes, bouts with heat and illness, and particularly encounters with such tribes as the Kickapoos, Potawatomies, and Pawnees. The author's eye for salient detail makes these sketches still highly readable"- John T. Flanagan, TRAVELERS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER, p.179. A few b&w sketch maps of the expeditions' routes are included. Large 8vo 9"-10" tall: 295pp. Check my feedback, I try and describe all items accurately as if I were the buyer. My pictures are part of the description so study them carefully. I do not accept returns so PLEASE ask questions before bidding. I ship all hardcover books protected well in cardboard.Sorry, no overseas shipments, Payment via PayPal. I ship promptly from a smoke-free, pet-free home.

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