Title: Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains; Being a History of the Enlistment, Organization, and first Campaign of the Regiment of United States Dragoons; Together with Incidents of a Soldier's Live, and Sketches of Scenery and Indian Character Author: [Hildreth, James] Place: New York Publisher: Wiley & Long Date: 1836 Description: 288 pp. 7½x4¾, modern brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Recounting of the first prairie campaign of the Regiment of Dragoons after its organization in 1833. It was commanded by Colonel Henry Dodge, and the regiment was accompanied on the first campaign by the artist George Catlin two letters from whom are included in the book. It has been suggested that the actual author was an Englishman, one William L. Gordon Miller, and that Hildreth was but a "New York farmer" who took the manuscript east to arrange for its publication, but the book is generally listed under Hildreth. Graff 1885; Howes H471; Sabin 31769; Wagner-Camp 59. Lot Amendments Condition: Half-inch strip trimmed from head of title page, foxing; very good. Item number: 207002
Title: Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains; Being a History of the Enlistment, Organization, and first Campaign of the Regiment of United States Dragoons; Together with Incidents of a Soldier's Live, and Sketches of Scenery and Indian Character Author: [Hildreth, James] Place: New York Publisher: Wiley & Long Date: 1836 Description: 288 pp. 7½x4¾, modern brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Recounting of the first prairie campaign of the Regiment of Dragoons after its organization in 1833. It was commanded by Colonel Henry Dodge, and the regiment was accompanied on the first campaign by the artist George Catlin two letters from whom are included in the book. It has been suggested that the actual author was an Englishman, one William L. Gordon Miller, and that Hildreth was but a "New York farmer" who took the manuscript east to arrange for its publication, but the book is generally listed under Hildreth. Graff 1885; Howes H471; Sabin 31769; Wagner-Camp 59. Lot Amendments Condition: Half-inch strip trimmed from head of title page, foxing; very good. Item number: 207002
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