THE FIELD DIARY OF LT. EDWARD SETTLE GODFREY, Commanding Co. K, 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the Sioux encounter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Limited to 1,000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Godfrey (1844-1932) was a 25-year veteran of the Seventh Cavalry who commanded Troop K in Major Benteen's battalion and served conspicuously in the defense of Reno Hill. His field diary is considered to be the most accurate and least biased short account of the Little Big Horn campaign. Edited with an introduction and notes by Edgar I. Stewart and Jane R. Stewart, together with a note on the Kicking Bear Pictograph by Carl S. Dentzel. Octavo: ix, [1, blank], 74 pp. with 9 illustrations and folding maps. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling along the spine and a Frederic Remington drawing of a cavalry officer on the front panel. Light rubbing to the corners and tips; else fine.