Major General James Henry Carleton by Aurora Hunt (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 390 pages, frontis, illustrations, map, very slight wear. Frontier Military Series II. Carleton served in the Mid-west in the mid 1800's, Fort Gibson, Council Bluffs, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket as issued. First Edition. Shelf wear to binding with bumps, scuffs & light soiling. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. First signature coming loose from binding at top. Text and images unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. Slight corner wear, trace soil to cloth, gilt slightly dulled. Tight and square. Many pages unopened. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 390 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Faint sticker mark on spine. Writing in ink inside front cover. Size: 8vo - otver 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Condition: Good. Prospectus. 8vo. One sheet. [This is a prospectus, not a book]. Facsimile Military Series II.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket as issued. First Edition. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Small, stout 4to. Frontis. photo portrait. Pp. 390. With illustrations, portraits, maps, with a facsimile of the Skelton Map of Southern California in a three-panel fold-out. Bibliography. Index. Top edge dyed light blue, fore-edge untrimmed. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. With only slight evidence of wear to head of spine. According to Clark and Brunet, "Carleton saw wide-ranging service in the West, from Fort Gibson to Council Bluffs, from escort duty on the Santa Fe Trail, to Fort Tejon north of Los Angeles." The author's contribution underscores the role of the regular U.S. Army in the settlement of the West. CLARK and BRUNET, 132.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 390 pages, frontis, illustrations, map, signed by the author, slight wear. Frontier Military Series II. Carleton served in the Mid-west in the mid 1800's, Fort Gibson, Council Bluffs, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 390 pages with and index. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, ivory pages. Blue boards have a little wear to edges and a few scratches on the back that are all difficult to see in the scans. Book has not been read, many of the deckle edged pages have not been cut still. Table of Contents THE NOTABLE CARLETON FAMILY A YOUNG MAN'S LITERARY ASPIRATIONS PARTICIPATION IN THE MAINE BOUNDARY CONTROVERSY CAVALRY TRAINING AND FIRST MISSION BRIEF SUSPENSION AND REASSIGNMENT LOG BOOKs OF THE PRAIRIES THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA -ANOTHER THERMOPYLAE ESCORT DUTY AND ARMY DISCIPLINE THE DEFENSE oF NEw MExICAN AcQUIsITIon A RAILROAD ROUTE AND GRAN QUIVIRA MISSION MAIL ORDER BUSINESS TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COSSACKS MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE NATIONAL DISUNITY RESULTS IN PREFERENTIAL APPOINTMENT THE CALIFORNIA COLUMN ADVANCES REESTABLISHMENT OF OrDER in THE SOUTHWEST ARIZONA SECESSION AND PROPERTY CONFISCATION UNSOLVED INDIAN PROBLEMS SKULLDUGGERY An UNPAID DEBT AND WHITE CROSSES MarKeD "UnknOWN" THE CARLETON METEORITE - OTHER SERVICES AND EXPERIENCEs. FATHER AND SON: ONE CAREER ENDS AS ANOTHER BEGINS BIBLIOGRAPHY Index The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 390 pages, frontis, illustrations, map. Frontier Military Series II. Carleton served in the Mid-west in the mid 1800's, Fort Gibson, Council Bluffs, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 390 pp., frontis, index, bibliography, foot notes, illustrations, maps. A fine, tight, unmarked, sharp cornered copy appearing to be pristine and unread. Volume II of the Frontier Military Series. Carleton served in the mid-west in the mid 1800's, Fort Gibson, Council Bluffs. the Plains and the Mexican War. Also has a chapter on Mountain Meadows, New Mexico and Arizona, and the Civil War in the West, COLLECTOR QUALITY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 390 pages; Light soiling and wear to covers.

cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed 390pp, frontis, plates, illus, maps, fld map, index, cloth nice On the Plains, Mexican War. A chapter on the Mountain Meadows, New Mexico and Arizona, Civil War in the West, etc. Volume II of the Clark Frontier Military Series.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Presumed 1st Thus. Pub by Arthur H. Clark, 1958, presumed 1st Edition or 1st Thus. NOT exLib. As-New cond hardcover, no dj. Dark blue cloth over bds w/ bright gilt lettering on spine. Fore- & bottom edges deckle-cut, top edge blue. 390pp. Square, straight, tight, bright & clean, overall As-New cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Frontier Military Series II. "It was not only the two-gun sheriff who brought law and order to the West, but the soldiers also. Weaves together a few strands of hitherto unpublished history and, by appraising the service of one soldier, James Henry Carleton, provide a better understanding to the many problems that confronted the United States Army." Rittenhouse: The Santa Fe Trail 314. 1266 copies printed. 390 pages with illustrations and maps. Bound in original dark blue cloth with lettering in gilt. Pages unopended. Front cover with several faint scratches, else a fine copy. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches with a prior owner's name and book plate on the front paste down with the same on the rear paste down and with the same name at the upper edge of the first free end page. Without its plain, unprinted dust jacket. Part of the publisher's Frontier Military Series, II. 390 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of General Carlton from a photograph and with 17 images from maps (one of which folds out), photographs and facsimile reproductions. "Carleton saw wide-ranging service in the West,.His life story helps round out our knowledge of the contribution made by the regular army to the development of the West." (from Clark & Brunet, 152)(Rittenhouse, 314).

First edition. First Edition. Blue Cloth. 390pp. Illustrations. 4 Maps. An excellent, thorough biography of of an officer who served in numerous parts of the west from the early 1840's through the late 1860's. Most notably he was involved in the investigations into the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Utah. A fine, bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Frontier Military Series, II. 390 pp. Many pages uncut. Minor bump on top edges. ; 8vo.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 398. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1958 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 398.

HUNT, Aurora. Major General James Henry Carleton. 1814-1873. Western Front Dragoon. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1958. 1st ed. Illus. Maps. 390pp. Orig. cloth. Fine.