TAYLOR, Joseph H.

Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life

Item #52599

TAYLOR, Joseph H. Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri and Great Plains. Embracing the Author's Personal Recollections of Noted Frontier Characters, and some Observations of Wild Indian Life during a Twenty-Five Years' Residence in the Two Dakotas and other Territories, Between the Years 1864 and 1889. Pottstown, PA: Printed and Published by the Author, 1889. 1st ed. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits. 200 pp. New 3/4-leather over orig. marbled boards. Boards slightly scuffed, else a very good copy. HOWES T-68, "b." Graff 4091. Eberstadt 132, #691. Reese, Best of the West 203: "A scarce western narrative by this modestly prolific chronicler of the Dakotas." "Printed by the author on an improvised hand press. The material for this work was gleaned from observations made during an overland trip across the plains in 1864-65; a term of soldiering on the border; a journey to Fort Randall and up the Dakota River; a residence in Wyoming and Montana and a continuous life in the Dakotas and Northwest until 1889."--Eberstadt.

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