Ware Eugene Walton Clyde (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1960 Nebraska University Press' first printing. Text in clean/unmarked condition. Cover has wear. Binding is tight.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Describes events of the Colorado War, fought from 1863 to 1865 between the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and white settlers and militia in the Colorado Territory and adjacent regions in Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. The Kiowa and the Comanche played a minor role in actions that occurred in the southern part of the Territory along the Arkansas River, while the Sioux played a major role in actions that occurred along the South Platte River along the Great Platte River Road, the eastern portion of the Overland Trail. The United States government and Colorado Territory authorities participated through the Colorado volunteers, a citizen's militia while the United States Army played a minor role. The war was centered on the Colorado Eastern Plains.

Reprint, originally 1911. 483pp, (6x9 inches), a few small maos, bibliography, notes and index. Ex-Library, hard cover with dust jacket. Has the usual stamping, pocket, but clean and firmly bound, no tears or creases, no markings to text. With its library protective DJ cover. "After the battle of Gettysburg in 1863, companies of the 7th Iowa cavalry were ordered west to fight Indians between Omaha and the Rocky Mountians and to counteract the tactical plan of the Confederacy aimed at inciting Indian uprisings to harrass the Union." (from the front flap).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprinted from original 1911 Edition. XXXVIII chapters; 483pp; Notes; Index; Appendixes. Former college library volume with customary stamps and labels. Pencil underlines in Introduction, otherwise textually unmarked; clean and tight. Author was officer in the 7th Iowa Cavalry during the Civil War; campaigns against the Indians. Ware's unit fought its own war against the Sioux and Cheyenne in the Dakotas, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska. The 7th Iowa patrolled and fought to keep the overland trail open from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Fort Laramie, Wyoming. This book is an eyewitness account based on author's daily journal and his letters.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Plans & Maps (illustrator). reissue of the 1911 original edition; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; rust c w/black decorations/boards; lite wear only; 481 clean, unmarked pages/index/appendices/notes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint of 1864 original. VG/G. Black paper over boards backed in red cloth, gilt lettering. Light rubs at extremities, corners bumped, covers clean. Contents clean and unmarked, binding and hinges sound. Jacket has small chips at extremities, a few nicks along edges, spine a little faded, price intact ($7.50). Jacket in new mylar protector. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Reprint of the scarce 1911 edition, hardcover, a Fine copy in a lightly soiled VG+ dustjacket which has a few short, closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, chip, toning to spine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. An eyewitness account of Ware's time as cavalry officer in the Seventh Iowa, reprint of 1911 edition, light wear to price-clipped dustjacket, illustrated with plans and maps, 483pp, VG/VG. Book.

St. Martin's Press, New York 1960. 483 pages. Few maps and illustrations in b/w. Orig. halfcloth in dust wrappers and with protective mylar wrappers. Fine / near fine- dustwrappers. Dustwrappers taped at the bottom on the backside. Otherwise clean and in good condition on the inside.