Olive green cloth boards w/ black titling on spine and cover / No DJ as issued. Binding square and tight, Covers clean w/ square but lightly bumped corners and min soiling/rubbing, Text block bright, clean and unmarked throughout w/ lightly read, age-toned pages and lightly dusted/soiled page ends. 339 pps, frontis, plates, ports, 2 fold-out maps. The Author spent five years attached to the Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas which was established in 1853 to provide military protection of the Kansas Frontier and Santa Fe Trail. The book provides mtl dating back to the Spanish explorers, early traders and pack trains, the overland mail, the establishment of the fort, Civil War days, the organization of the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1866 under the command of General George A. Custer, the mid 1880s when Fort Riley became the home to the Army's Cavalry and Light Artillery Schools, to the advent of WWI. It incl's mtl on Custer and Wild Bill Hickok, among others. .Adams Six-Guns 1770, Rittenhouse 473, Wagner-Camp 392 (mention), Socolofsky 545.

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Title

The History of Fort Riley

Publisher

Privately Published, nm

Publication Date

1926

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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