The Prairie Logbooks: Dragoon Campaigns to the Pawnee Villages in 1844 and to the Rocky Mountains in 1845

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Tiny bump to corner else a fine crisp copy in good solid slipcase worn through at the corners. First edition. Gilt decorated quarter blue cloth over red cloth boards. Top edge gilt. 8vo. xviii 295 pp. Map. Limited edition of 350 copies. "Lieutenant James Henry Carletons first Logbook was published anonymously and appeared first in the Spirit of the Times New York from November 9 1844 to April 12 1845 ... The Logbook describing the second expedition (commanded by Colonel S. W. Kearny) was first printed in the Spirit of the Times from December 27 1845 to May 30 1846."