ABSARAKA (Ab-sa-ra-ka) Home of the Crows
Carrington, Mrs. Margaret
Published by Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1950
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Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Pp. liv+354, folding frontispiece map, 2 portrait plates with tissue guards, 5 text illustrations, 2 full page plans, appendices, index; f'cap 8vo; maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, top fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised, small surface graze to upper board, the lower board a trifle flecked; t.e.g.; ownership stamp on blank preliminary leaf, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, 1950. The Lakeside Classics series, No. 48. *First published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, in 1868, with the subtitle: 'Experiences of an officer's wife on the plains, and marking the vicissitudes of peril and pleasure during the occupation of the new route to Virginia City, Montana, 1866-7 and the Indian hostility thereto; with outlines of the natural features and resources of the land, tables of distance, maps, and other aids to the traveller, gathered from observation and other reliable sources.'. Seller Inventory # 174645
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Title: ABSARAKA (Ab-sa-ra-ka) Home of the Crows
Publisher: Lakeside Press, Chicago
Publication Date: 1950
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Absaraka (Ab-sa-ra-ka). Home of the Crows
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The Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1950
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Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprinted from the 1868 edition. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 12mo. liii, 354pp. Folding map, 2 portraits, 2 plans, text illustrations. Index. Maroon cloth, gilt. Spine very slightly faded. A fine, bright copy. Includes an excellent historical introduction by Quaife. "A tale of remarkable courage of an isolated detachment of soldiery, and of shocking blundering and inefficiency on the part of the higher command" (Quaife). A personal account of the experiences of an officer's wife on the plains of Wyoming, fortified by invaluable additional material from the author's husband, Colonel Henry B. Carrington. Much on the Fetterman massacre, the construction of Wyoming military forts, etc. Book. Seller Inventory # 6102
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